From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-svn: allow disabling expensive broken symlink checks
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:02:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vljslgvkv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090205074215.GA24887@dcvr.yhbt.net> (Eric Wong's message of "Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:42:15 -0800")
Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:
> Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
>
>> > > Previously, git-svn would just stop importing and refuse to continue.
>> > > So allowing the user to enable it would be a problem; too. I don't
>> > > recall the error being easy to distinguish from other errors.
>
> Actually I was wrong on git-svn refusing to continue. git-svn will
> create a regular 100644 file with "link path/to/dest" as its contents.
> git-svn only croaks on checksum differences with the blob itself; it
> does not have an easy way to verify the mode change => 120000 if it
> happened previously.
Thanks for being thorough.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-05 8:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-31 13:14 "git svn fetch" slow Markus Heidelberg
2009-01-31 16:23 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-01-31 17:01 ` Markus Heidelberg
2009-01-31 17:31 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-02-01 2:18 ` [PATCH] git-svn: allow disabling expensive broken symlink checks Eric Wong
2009-02-02 3:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-03 4:45 ` Eric Wong
2009-02-03 6:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-03 19:10 ` Eric Wong
2009-02-05 7:42 ` Eric Wong
2009-02-05 8:02 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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