From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable USE_SYMLINK_HEAD by default Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:03:38 -0800 Message-ID: <7vveyuqto5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <1132034390.22207.18.camel@dv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 15 08:05:18 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EburH-0007rq-0L for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 08:03:59 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932319AbVKOHDk (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 02:03:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932320AbVKOHDk (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 02:03:40 -0500 Received: from fed1rmmtao03.cox.net ([68.230.241.36]:19874 "EHLO fed1rmmtao03.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932319AbVKOHDk (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 02:03:40 -0500 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.4.9.127]) by fed1rmmtao03.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20051115070310.EQUD20875.fed1rmmtao03.cox.net@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 02:03:10 -0500 To: Pavel Roskin In-Reply-To: <1132034390.22207.18.camel@dv> (Pavel Roskin's message of "Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:59:50 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Pavel Roskin writes: > Applying this patch before 1.0 may be controversial,... If I am not mistaken, I thought the last thread on the list showed general consensus that symlinks were preferred when available. So applying this patch anytime would be controversial... > but I think there is a very good reason for that. Which is...? I do not think this paragraph justifies it: > There should be exactly one git 1.0 repository format. Now we > have two that are present in the sources and that have > received testing from the git users. The one format is that .git/HEAD can either be a symlink or regular file text symref; both variants are tested -- wouldn't that be good enough? 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.