* [PATCH 0/5] git-tar-tree: add symlink support
@ 2005-05-06 20:55 Rene Scharfe
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From: Rene Scharfe @ 2005-05-06 20:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linus Torvalds; +Cc: git
Since symlinks can be stored inside GIT, git-tar-tree should properly
handle them, too. The first three patches do a bit of cleanup to make
adding symlink support easier. The fourth patch actually dirties the
code, also to make the fifth one easier. :) I just couldn't think of a
better way to split the changes and a combined patch of 4&5 did too much
at once.
If a link target is longer than 100 chars than an extended header is
created. Because of the way git-tar-tree handles extended headers that
means the sum of path and target of a symlink must be less than about
490 chars. This is not a limitation of the archive format, so we can
fix it later.
Rene
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