From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable USE_SYMLINK_HEAD by default
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:31:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tnxek5i42y5.fsf@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1132042427.3512.50.camel@dv> (Pavel Roskin's message of "Tue, 15 Nov 2005 03:13:47 -0500")
Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 23:03 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> The one format is that .git/HEAD can either be a symlink or
>> regular file text symref; both variants are tested -- wouldn't
>> that be good enough?
>
> No. Even if git itself is tested, other tools are not. What's worse,
> the developers of those tools don't even know they are supposed to test
> for two HEAD formats unless they track git changes and mailing lists
> very carefully.
>
> In particular, StGIT still needs fixing.
StGIT has been fixed for this in the latest snapshot (but not in the
latest release). It now uses "git-symbolic-ref HEAD" to get the name
of the current branch.
--
Catalin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-15 10:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-15 5:59 [PATCH] Disable USE_SYMLINK_HEAD by default Pavel Roskin
2005-11-15 7:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-15 8:13 ` Pavel Roskin
2005-11-15 8:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-15 10:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-15 11:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-15 12:18 ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-15 14:24 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-15 15:37 ` Adrien Beau
2005-11-15 16:50 ` Pavel Roskin
2005-11-15 17:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-15 17:21 ` Pavel Roskin
2005-11-15 17:32 ` Nick Hengeveld
2005-11-15 17:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-15 17:42 ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-15 18:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-15 18:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-15 17:06 ` Pavel Roskin
2005-11-15 18:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-16 1:56 ` Pavel Roskin
2005-11-16 3:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-16 1:05 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2005-11-15 10:31 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2005-11-15 16:27 ` Pavel Roskin
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