From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a new lstat implementation based on Win32 API, and make stat use that implementation too. Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 13:33:18 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <46DACD93.9000509@trolltech.com> <46DB0478.8050402@trolltech.com> <46DB0F9C.2090306@trolltech.com> <200709022228.00733.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> <46DBA672.9050308@trolltech.com> <46DBF5AC.6070400@trolltech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Robin Rosenberg , Johannes Sixt , git@vger.kernel.org To: Marius Storm-Olsen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 03 14:33:36 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ISB7W-0003OS-D1 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:33:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752198AbXICMda (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Sep 2007 08:33:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752164AbXICMda (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Sep 2007 08:33:30 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:35255 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751428AbXICMd3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Sep 2007 08:33:29 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 03 Sep 2007 12:33:28 -0000 Received: from wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (EHLO openvpn-client) [132.187.25.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp036) with SMTP; 03 Sep 2007 14:33:28 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+d8lJ/1yOd3pKdCgXUV10BDS2UDh0+upegeZQ1dN 10D+iVoreCvP/k X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <46DBF5AC.6070400@trolltech.com> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote: > Johannes Schindelin said the following on 03.09.2007 13:39: > > On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote: > > > Robin Rosenberg said the following on 02.09.2007 22:27: > > > > It does now: See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363866.aspx > > > Yeah, I know about Vista's improved support for symbolic links. > > > However, I think we can let that lay for a while, until we decide > > > to make Git generate proper symlinks on Vista. I don't see it as > > > a 1st priority at the moment, and we can always add the needed > > > functionality in a separate stat() function later. > > > > ... and force everybody to upgrade to Vista, thereby working for > > Microsoft for free? You _know_ that I will oppose that change. > > ;-) I wouldn't dream of it! Hehe. > Nah, my comment was more 'allow usage of proper Symlinks on Vista' at a > later point. I would still argue that the default would be what we have > today. So, it would have to be an option. Okay, I could live with that. > But seeing what they've done to the symlinks there, it might be far > fetched. We'll worry about that (much) later.. Yes, it is funny how they do it over and over and over again. Embrace, "Extend", Extinguish. And I thought that eventually people would be clever enough to realise... Ciao, Dscho