From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Subject: Re: "make quick-install-man" broke recently Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:26:53 -0700 Message-ID: <861vna8qj6.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> References: <86my5z8cjd.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <7vy6pj449g.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <86iqgn8brv.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <7vd46v3tp1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <8c9a060908162258ua50e34ah53c1ada9dbcd4aa0@mail.gmail.com> <7vhbw72ap3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jacob Helwig , Linus Torvalds , Kjetil Barvik , "git\@vger.kernel.org" To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 17 16:27:03 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Md3As-0001eA-JD for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:27:03 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753406AbZHQO0x (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:26:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753353AbZHQO0w (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:26:52 -0400 Received: from blue.stonehenge.com ([209.223.236.162]:25783 "EHLO blue.stonehenge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753004AbZHQO0w (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:26:52 -0400 Received: by blue.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EE9421DE39E; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:26:53 -0700 (PDT) x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.16.10.18; tzolkin = 4 Etznab; haab = 16 Yaxkin In-Reply-To: <7vhbw72ap3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:53:12 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (berkeley-unix) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: >>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano writes: Junio> Merlyn noticed that Documentation/install-doc-quick.sh no longer correctly Junio> removes old installed documents when the target directory has a leading Junio> path that is a symlink. It turns out that "checkout-index --prefix" was Junio> broken by recent b6986d8 (git-checkout: be careful about untracked Junio> symlinks, 2009-07-29). It's good to know I wasn't hallucinating, in any case. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion