From: Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
To: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Cc: David Turner <David.Turner@twosigma.com>,
"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Uninitialized submodules as symlinks
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 21:35:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161013193558.GC1698@ikke.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161013161017.GC29710@book.hvoigt.net>
On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 06:10:17PM +0200, Heiko Voigt wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 06:17:05PM +0000, David Turner wrote:
> > Presently, uninitialized submodules are materialized in the working
> > tree as empty directories. We would like to consider having them be
> > symlinks. Specifically, we'd like them to be symlinks into a FUSE
> > filesystem which retrieves files on demand.
>
> How about portability? This feature would only work on Unix like
> operating systems. You have to be careful to not break Windows since
> they do not have symlinks.
>
NTFS does have symlinks, but you need admin right to create them though
(unless you change the policy).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-13 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-07 18:17 Uninitialized submodules as symlinks David Turner
2016-10-07 18:56 ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-07 19:59 ` David Turner
2016-10-17 9:45 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-10-17 15:12 ` David Turner
2016-10-13 16:10 ` Heiko Voigt
2016-10-13 19:35 ` Kevin Daudt [this message]
2016-10-14 16:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-17 9:28 ` Heiko Voigt
2016-10-17 15:11 ` David Turner
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