Re: [PATCH] cg-pull to stop treating "master" specially, fix fetch_local for .git/HEAD

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

  Hello,

Dear diary, on Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:33:16PM CEST, I got a letter
where Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> said that...
> Local URL handling needs to be fixed to handle .git/HEAD properly, since
> it's a symlink in the upstream directory.  A new flag "-b" for fetch_*
> functions is introduced, meaning "dereference" (like in GNU cp).
> 
> @@ -205,6 +209,11 @@ fetch_local()
>  	[ "$1" = "-s" ] && shift
>  
>  	cp_flags_l="-vdpR"
> +	if [ "$1" = "-b" ]; then
> +		cp_flags_l="-vb" # Dereference symlinks
> +		shift
> +	fi
> +
>  	if [ "$1" = "-u" ]; then
>  		cp_flags_l="$cp_flags_l -fu$can_hardlink"
>  		suggest_hardlink=

  can you still remember why did you introduce this? In GNU cp
documentation, I can see just

       -b, --backup
              Make backups of files that are about to be overwritten or removed.

which doesn't make sense to me - -L dereferences symlinks.

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