From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Implement core.symlinks to support filesystems without symlinks
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:13:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702280013.45598.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11726125012895-git-send-email-johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
tisdag 27 februari 2007 22:41 skrev Johannes Sixt:
>
> Here is a small patch series that adds a configuration variable
core.symlinks.
> From the manual:
>
> core.symlinks::
> If false, symbolic links are checked out as small plain files that
> contain the link text. gitlink:git-update-index[1] and
> gitlink:git-add[1] will not change the recorded type to regular
> file. Useful on filesystems like FAT that do not support
> symbolic links. True by default.
How useful is that? The problem is that those links won't work so the checkout
will be broken. Creating copies would be less broken since the "links" could
still be used. It should be possible to use the index to see which file is an
original and which is a symblink, provided both are in the same repository.
Then maybe fall back to this approach if the symlink target cannot be
resolved.
I'm not sure how people use symbolic links in git, but I'd imagine they
typically point to a file in the same repository.
-- robin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-27 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-27 21:41 Implement core.symlinks to support filesystems without symlinks Johannes Sixt
2007-02-27 21:41 ` [PATCH] Add a flag core.symlinks analogous to core.filemode Johannes Sixt
2007-02-27 21:41 ` [PATCH] Do not change the file type if the filesystem does not support symlinks Johannes Sixt
2007-02-27 21:41 ` [PATCH] Create a symbolic link as a regular file on filesystems without symlinks Johannes Sixt
2007-02-27 21:41 ` [PATCH] diff-lib.c: Ignore type differences if the filesystem does not support symlinks Johannes Sixt
2007-02-27 21:41 ` [PATCH] Describe core.symlinks in the man pages Johannes Sixt
2007-02-27 22:44 ` [PATCH] Create a symbolic link as a regular file on filesystems without symlinks Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-28 17:18 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-02-27 22:54 ` [PATCH] Do not change the file type if the filesystem does not support symlinks Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-28 17:40 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-02-28 17:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-27 23:13 ` Robin Rosenberg [this message]
2007-02-28 0:07 ` Implement core.symlinks to support filesystems without symlinks Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-28 22:48 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-03-01 1:18 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-01 11:56 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-03-01 17:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-01 19:24 ` Johannes Sixt
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