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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, beuc@gnu.org,
	Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-cvsserver: handle change type T
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:01:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vve3lbwz9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47DD9890.3060005@gnu.org> (Paolo Bonzini's message of "Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:00:48 +0100")

Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> ...
>> 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. :-(

Yeah, I see why $git_perms fall back to "rw" now around l.2620 -- if file
mode is 120000, none of the r/w/x would have been added in.

Martin, likes, dislikes?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-17  8:02 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
2008-03-16 22:28     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-17  7:54       ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-03-17  8:01     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-03-17 19:34       ` Martin Langhoff
2008-03-17 19:47         ` Paolo Bonzini

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