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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkout_entry: only try to create directories when no file existed there
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:17:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v4pj93evc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708082200240.14781@racer.site> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Wed, 8 Aug 2007 22:00:53 +0100 (BST)")

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> It is obvious that we do not have to create directories when the file we
> want to check out already existed.

It is not so obvious to me.  In fact I vaguely recall we had
complaint about opposite case where we did not honor a symlink
to be checked out as a symlink because an earlier branch had it
as a directory.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-08 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-08 21:00 [PATCH] checkout_entry: only try to create directories when no file existed there Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-08 21:17 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-08-08 21:42   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-08 22:40     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-08 22:54       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-08 21:27 ` David Kastrup

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