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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable USE_SYMLINK_HEAD by default
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:24:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vpsp2qpx4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1132042427.3512.50.camel@dv> (Pavel Roskin's message of "Tue, 15 Nov 2005 03:13:47 -0500")

Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> writes:

> In particular, StGIT still needs fixing.
>
>> The only thing I can think of that might be inconvenient is if
>> you try doing "cp -a" off of a filesystem that supports symlinks
>> to another filesystem that does not -- probably that would fail
>> copying the symlinked .git/HEAD.  But if that is the problem,
>> you could always git-clone, which should do the right thing, I
>> think.
>
> I'm talking from my experience now.  If there is an option, there are
> users that have it enabled and those who have it disabled (by
> definition).  As is often happens, one of the configurations is more
> popular with developers.  The other configuration almost inevitably
> starts suffering from the "bit rot".

That's a real concern, I should agree.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-15  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-15  5:59 [PATCH] Disable USE_SYMLINK_HEAD by default Pavel Roskin
2005-11-15  7:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-15  8:13   ` Pavel Roskin
2005-11-15  8:24     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2005-11-15 10:24       ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-15 11:09         ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-15 12:18           ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-15 14:24             ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-15 15:37               ` Adrien Beau
2005-11-15 16:50               ` Pavel Roskin
2005-11-15 17:05             ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-15 17:21               ` Pavel Roskin
2005-11-15 17:32                 ` Nick Hengeveld
2005-11-15 17:33                 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-15 17:42                   ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-15 18:01                     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-15 18:13                 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-15 17:06             ` Pavel Roskin
2005-11-15 18:21               ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-16  1:56                 ` Pavel Roskin
2005-11-16  3:13                   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-16  1:05             ` Josef Weidendorfer
2005-11-15 10:31     ` Catalin Marinas
2005-11-15 16:27       ` Pavel Roskin

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