From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, beuc@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-cvsserver: handle change type T
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:00:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47DD9890.3060005@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v63vmicvf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> git-cvsserver does not support changes of type T (file type change,
>> e.g. symlink->real file). This patch treats them the same as changes
>> of type M.
>
> Hmm.
>
> Do cvs clients even know how to handle symlinks, or will this patch just
> start sending the readlink(2) result as if it is just a regular file
> contents?
It was before too. The problem arises if one found the problem, deleted
the symlink, added the regular file -- and now cvsserver stops working
at all. :-(
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-16 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-16 19:00 [PATCH] git-cvsserver: handle change type T Paolo Bonzini
2008-03-16 21:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-16 22:00 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2008-03-16 22:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-17 7:54 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-03-17 8:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-17 19:34 ` Martin Langhoff
2008-03-17 19:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
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