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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Cc: git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: git cat-file --follow-symlinks?
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:16:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150429211615.GR5467@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1430341032.14907.9.camel@ubuntu>

Hi,

David Turner wrote:

> Instead, it would be cool if cat-file had a mode in which it would
> follow symlinks.

Makes sense.

> The major wrinkle is that symlinks can point outside the repository --
> either because they are absolute paths, or because they are relative
> paths with enough ../ in them.  For this case, I propose that
> --follow-symlinks should output [sha] "symlink" [target] instead of the
> usual [sha] "blob" [bytes].

What happens when the symlink payload contains a newline?

Thanks,
Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-29 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-29 20:57 RFC: git cat-file --follow-symlinks? David Turner
2015-04-29 21:16 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2015-04-29 21:24   ` David Turner
2015-04-29 21:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-29 21:30   ` David Turner
2015-04-29 21:48     ` Jeff King
2015-04-29 22:19       ` Jonathan Nieder
2015-04-29 23:05         ` Jeff King
2015-04-29 22:29       ` David Turner
2015-04-29 23:11         ` Jeff King
2015-04-30  0:37           ` Jeff King
2015-04-30  1:06             ` David Turner
2015-04-30  1:16               ` Jeff King
2015-04-30  1:31                 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-30  3:18                   ` Jeff King
2015-04-30  1:45                 ` David Turner
2015-04-30  3:37                   ` Jeff King
2015-04-30  5:34                     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-30  8:12                       ` Michael Haggerty
2015-04-30 18:03                         ` David Turner
2015-04-30 18:19                           ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-30 18:28                             ` David Turner
2015-04-30 18:32                               ` Jeff King
2015-04-30 18:44                                 ` David Turner
2015-04-30 18:49                                   ` Jeff King
2015-04-30 19:00                                     ` David Turner
2015-04-30 19:10                                       ` Jeff King
2015-04-30 19:17                                         ` David Turner
2015-04-30 10:04                     ` Andreas Schwab
2015-04-30 18:27                       ` Jeff King
2015-04-30 19:18                         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-30 19:25                     ` David Turner
2015-04-30 19:46                       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-30 19:51                         ` Jeff King
2015-04-30 20:05                         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-01  3:29                     ` David Turner
2015-05-01  5:36                       ` Jeff King
2015-05-01 17:29                         ` David Turner
2015-05-01 20:11                           ` Jeff King
2015-05-01 21:09                             ` David Turner
2015-04-29 21:49     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-29 22:47       ` David Turner
2015-04-30  8:10 ` Michael Haggerty

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