git mailing list (Re: Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3)

Linus Torvalds
2005-04-13T18:20:24Z

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
>
> Dear diary, on Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 07:01:34PM CEST, I got a letter
> where Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> told me that...
> > For future reference, git is unhappy if you actually do this, because your
> > HEAD won't match the (empty) contents of the new directory. The easiest
> > thing is to cp -r your original, replace the shared stuff with links, and
> > go from there.
>
> How is it unhappy?

I think it's just Daniel being unhappy because he didn't do the read-tree
+ checkout-cache + update-cache steps ;)

Btw, I'm going to stop cc'ing linux-kernel on git issues (after this
email, which also acts as an announcement for people who haven't noticed
already), since anybody who is interested in git can just use the
"git@vger.kernel.org" mailing list:

echo 'subscribe git' | mail majordomo@vger.kernel.org

to get you subscribed (and you'll get a message back asking you to
authorize it to avoid spam - if you don't get anything back, it failed).

Linus