From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-svn: allow disabling expensive broken symlink checks Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:02:40 -0800 Message-ID: <7vljslgvkv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <200901311414.58205.markus.heidelberg@web.de> <20090201021844.GB18855@dcvr.yhbt.net> <7vbptlo7zg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20090203044549.GA2483@dcvr.yhbt.net> <7v4ozcdnbt.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20090203191021.GB2077@dcvr.yhbt.net> <20090205074215.GA24887@dcvr.yhbt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Markus Heidelberg To: Eric Wong X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 05 09:04:16 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LUzDb-0000jI-Am for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:04:15 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754410AbZBEICs (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 03:02:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754380AbZBEICs (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 03:02:48 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:64345 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753744AbZBEICs (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 03:02:48 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0B892A780; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 03:02:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D6EDB2A77E; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 03:02:41 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20090205074215.GA24887@dcvr.yhbt.net> (Eric Wong's message of "Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:42:15 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 5FE01EFA-F35B-11DD-B2AE-6F7C8D1D4FD0-77302942!a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Eric Wong writes: > Eric Wong 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.