Re: [MinGW port] Unable to repack on Clearcase dynamic views

["Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On 5/30/07, Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> wrote:
> onsdag 30 maj 2007 skrev Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy:
> > On 5/30/07, Paolo Teti <paolo.teti@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 2007/5/30, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > On clearcase dynamic views (kind of virtual drives), "mv -f a b" won't
> > > > work if "a" is read-only. Because git-repack.sh removes all write
> > > > permission before moving packs, it fails on clearcase dynamic views.
> > > >
> > > > My approach is rather ugly. Does anyone have a better solution?
> > >
> > > I hate clearcase, but honestly I have used it forced by a customer..
> > > The real problem is why you need to do a repack in a CC view, but..
> >
> > I don't like it either :) But you remind me the Matthias' workdir
> > patchset. With that I can move out .git to a real drive/filesystem
> > (which should also give better performance).
> >
> > I think it's a valid use case. Anyone remember why Matthias' patchset
> > was dropped?
> > It was last mentioned in
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/43041
> >
> > Junio, Matthias? May I help?
>
> Wasn't because it's better to make .git a link to a repository somewhere
> else? Just a guess.
>
> ln -s /somewhere/repo/.git .git
>
> Works fine for me (yes, in a clearcase dynamic view).

Clearcase symlinks require checkout/checkin stuffs that I really don't
want to mess up with. Moreover, it seems not work if the link
destination is out of clearcase view (which is what I wanted).
-- 
Duy