From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make Git accept absolute path names for files within the work tree
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 02:17:40 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712040216220.27959@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071204014326.GA21358@coredump.intra.peff.net>
Hi,
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Jeff King wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:53:30PM +0100, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
>
> > code did not pass). Like Linus, this code does not resolve symlinks,
> > but I forgot to state that it is by design. It solves my problem and
>
> By design meaning "I didn't feel like implemening it because I do not
> personally care" or "I have some reason not to resolve symlinks"?
IMHO those symlinks would be a nice thing in some corner cases, but
penalise the common case. So I tend to believe the latter. (See also
Linus' message why he talks about his preference for the die() code path.)
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-04 2:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-03 0:52 Incorrect git-blame result if I use full path to file Anatol Pomozov
2007-12-03 2:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-03 2:28 ` Jeff King
2007-12-03 17:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-03 18:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-03 18:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-03 18:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-03 2:27 ` Jeff King
2007-12-03 2:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-03 2:49 ` Jeff King
2007-12-03 6:55 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-12-03 20:53 ` [PATCH] Make Git accept absolute path names for files within the work tree Robin Rosenberg
2007-12-03 23:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-04 1:43 ` Jeff King
2007-12-04 2:17 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-12-04 6:42 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-12-04 11:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-04 15:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-04 22:08 ` Jeff King
2007-12-04 22:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-06 6:12 ` Jeff King
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-11-26 23:18 Robin Rosenberg
2007-11-27 0:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-27 23:20 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-11-27 23:24 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-11-28 8:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-29 1:15 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-11-29 2:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-29 0:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-27 8:45 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-11-27 23:14 ` Robin Rosenberg
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