From: Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: richih@debian.org
Subject: git-mv with absolute path derefereces symlinks
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:48:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140115124859.GA4283@mule> (raw)
Hi,
If git-mv is provided absolute paths when moving symlinks, it tries to
dereference them and (attempts to) move the symlink target rather than the
symlink itself, this seems like a quite odd behaviour since it's inconsistent
with how git-mv works with symlinks if given relative paths, and I'm thinking
it might be a bug, since it not documented in the git-mv manpage.
###
$ git init linktest
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/arand/tmp/linktest/.git/
$ cd linktest/
$ touch target
$ ln -s target link
$ ln -s /tmp/target link2
$ git add .
$ git commit -m1
[master (root-commit) 3cfea66] 1
3 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
create mode 120000 link
create mode 120000 link2
create mode 100644 target
$ git mv "$(pwd)/link" "$(pwd)/moved"
$ git status
On branch master
Changes to be committed:
(use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
renamed: target -> moved
$ git mv "$(pwd)/link2" "$(pwd)/moved2"
fatal: /home/arand/tmp/linktest/link2: '/home/arand/tmp/linktest/link2' is outside repository
###
--
Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>
next reply other threads:[~2014-01-15 12:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-15 12:48 Martin Erik Werner [this message]
2014-01-26 14:22 ` [PATCH 0/2] in-tree symlink handling with absolute paths Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-26 14:22 ` [PATCH 1/2] t0060: Add test for manipulating symlinks via " Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-26 14:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] setup: Don't dereference in-tree symlinks for " Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-26 17:19 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-01-27 0:07 ` Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-27 0:07 ` [PATCH v2 " Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-27 0:49 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-01-27 16:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-31 20:21 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 1:59 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] Handling of " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 1:59 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] t0060: Add test for manipulating symlinks via " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 1:59 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] t0060: Add test for prefix_path when path == work tree Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 1:59 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] setup: Add 'abspath_part_inside_repo' function Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 2:19 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-02 2:23 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-02 11:13 ` Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 11:21 ` David Kastrup
2014-02-02 11:37 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-02-02 12:09 ` Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 12:27 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-02-02 12:15 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-02 1:59 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] setup: Don't dereference in-tree symlinks for absolute paths Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 16:35 ` [PATCH v5 0/5] Handling of " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 16:35 ` [PATCH v5 1/5] t0060: Add test for manipulating symlinks via " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-03 18:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-03 19:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-03 20:12 ` Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 16:35 ` [PATCH v5 2/5] t0060: Add test for prefix_path when path == work tree Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 16:35 ` [PATCH v5 3/5] t0060: Add tests for prefix_path when path begins with " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 16:35 ` [PATCH v5 4/5] setup: Add 'abspath_part_inside_repo' function Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-03 21:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-03 23:16 ` Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-04 18:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-04 18:32 ` Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 16:35 ` [PATCH v5 5/5] setup: Don't dereference in-tree symlinks for absolute paths Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-03 4:15 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-03 13:17 ` Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-04 0:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-04 14:25 ` [PATCH v6 0/6] Handling of " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-04 14:25 ` [PATCH v6 1/6] t3004: Add test for ls-files on symlinks via " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-04 14:25 ` [PATCH v6 2/6] t0060: Add test for prefix_path " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-04 14:25 ` [PATCH v6 3/6] t0060: Add test for prefix_path when path == work tree Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-04 14:25 ` [PATCH v6 4/6] t0060: Add tests for prefix_path when path begins with " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-04 20:00 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-02-04 20:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-04 14:25 ` [PATCH v6 5/6] setup: Add 'abspath_part_inside_repo' function Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-04 19:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-04 14:25 ` [PATCH v6 6/6] setup: Don't dereference in-tree symlinks for absolute paths Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-31 20:22 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] t0060: Add test for manipulating symlinks via " Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-31 20:22 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] t0060: Add test for prefix_path when path == work tree Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-31 20:22 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] setup: Add 'abspath_part_inside_repo' function Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-31 22:37 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-02-01 1:31 ` Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-01 2:31 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-01-31 20:23 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] setup: Don't dereference in-tree symlinks for absolute paths Martin Erik Werner
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