From: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Implement core.symlinks to support filesystems without symlinks
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 20:24:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200703012024.01707.johannes.sixt@telecom.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703011256.50659.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
On Thursday 01 March 2007 12:56, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> torsdag 01 mars 2007 02:18 skrev Johannes Schindelin:
> > So, all I would like to do on top of Johannes' patch is to add a _big_
> > _fat_ warning whenever Git realizes it has to substitute a file for a
> > link, but I DON'T WANT THE BLOODY FILE TO BE COPIED.
>
> I do want it to fail early initially (checkout), no default workaround,
> until I SAY I want copies (or text links, this is apparently a preference.
> By default git should complain loudly that it cannot create links.
Oh, git will fail early: symlink(2) will complain.
> - What do you want to do today?
> a) Screw me with copies
> b) Screw me with text links
> c) Screw me with shortcuts (cygwin does this which is fine as long as I
> stay within cygwin, so it is ok as a default behaviour there, but not
> otherwise)
The patch implements behavior b), and it will need to be turned on in a
conscious act, or it won't "screw you".
-- Hannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-01 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-27 21:41 Implement core.symlinks to support filesystems without symlinks Johannes Sixt
2007-02-27 21:41 ` [PATCH] Add a flag core.symlinks analogous to core.filemode Johannes Sixt
2007-02-27 21:41 ` [PATCH] Do not change the file type if the filesystem does not support symlinks Johannes Sixt
2007-02-27 21:41 ` [PATCH] Create a symbolic link as a regular file on filesystems without symlinks Johannes Sixt
2007-02-27 21:41 ` [PATCH] diff-lib.c: Ignore type differences if the filesystem does not support symlinks Johannes Sixt
2007-02-27 21:41 ` [PATCH] Describe core.symlinks in the man pages Johannes Sixt
2007-02-27 22:44 ` [PATCH] Create a symbolic link as a regular file on filesystems without symlinks Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-28 17:18 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-02-27 22:54 ` [PATCH] Do not change the file type if the filesystem does not support symlinks Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-28 17:40 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-02-28 17:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-27 23:13 ` Implement core.symlinks to support filesystems without symlinks Robin Rosenberg
2007-02-28 0:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-28 22:48 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-03-01 1:18 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-01 11:56 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-03-01 17:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-01 19:24 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
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