From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Bradford Smith <bradford.carl.smith@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-config: replaces ~/.gitconfig symlink with real file
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:30:25 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707160029120.14781@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f158199e0707151427h52da3e38rae3be6e44e27e918@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Bradford Smith wrote:
> If I were to fix this, I'd be tempted to use realpath(3) to follow the
> symlink, but I don't think it's very reliably available cross-platform.
> Certainly, it isn't used anywhere in the current git code. Can anyone
> suggest a more portable fix?
I'd use readlink(2) and test for EINVAL to fall back to the current
behaviour.
Hth,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-15 23:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-15 21:27 git-config: replaces ~/.gitconfig symlink with real file Bradford Smith
2007-07-15 23:30 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-07-16 9:37 ` Nikolai Weibull
2007-07-16 11:33 ` Bradford Smith
2007-07-16 13:26 ` Bradford Smith
2007-07-16 22:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-25 16:49 ` [PATCH 0/2] git-config should not replace symlink Bradford C. Smith
2007-07-25 16:49 ` [PATCH 1/2] resolve symlinks when creating lockfiles Bradford C. Smith
2007-07-25 16:49 ` [PATCH 2/2] use lockfile.c routines in git_commit_set_multivar() Bradford C. Smith
2007-07-25 23:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] resolve symlinks when creating lockfiles Junio C Hamano
2007-07-26 16:55 ` [PATCH] use lockfile.c routines in git_commit_set_multivar() Bradford C. Smith
2007-07-26 18:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-26 18:48 ` Bradford Smith
2007-07-27 4:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-27 4:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-27 9:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-27 18:24 ` Bradford Smith
2007-07-26 17:34 ` [PATCH] fully resolve symlinks when creating lockfiles Bradford C. Smith
2007-07-26 18:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-26 19:34 ` Morten Welinder
2007-07-27 16:50 ` Bradford Smith
2007-07-27 7:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-17 13:56 ` git-config: replaces ~/.gitconfig symlink with real file Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-17 14:27 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-17 20:35 ` Fredrik Tolf
2007-07-17 20:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-17 13:39 ` Catalin Marinas
2007-07-17 16:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
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