From: "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix use of hardlinks in "make install"
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:17:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81b0412b0808280717u78c5ccf8ne1413c701ed8edd9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0808280704h585b6cb4nf03e509de0159a91@mail.gmail.com>
2008/8/28 Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>:
> The code tried to create a hardlink to the file ($execdir/git-add) it just
> removed, so ln failed (but because stderr was redirected into /dev/null the
> error was never seen), and the whole install ended up using "ln -s" instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
> ---
>
> It created endless symlink loops on cygwin, but obviously nowhere else.
>
Sh@#! Scrap that, there is something else going on in that cygwindows thing...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-28 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-28 14:04 [PATCH] Fix use of hardlinks in "make install" Alex Riesen
2008-08-28 14:17 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2008-08-28 14:30 ` Alex Riesen
2008-08-30 0:20 ` [PATCH/resend] " Alex Riesen
2008-08-30 8:59 ` Andreas Färber
2008-08-30 10:08 ` Alex Riesen
2008-08-30 11:39 ` Andreas Färber
2008-08-30 15:48 ` Alex Riesen
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