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From: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Demonstrate breakage: checkout overwrites untracked symlink with directory
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:49:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110210214901.GA25437@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vpqr0n51f.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 03:48:12PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> Perhaps can-clobber-to-checkout would be a good candidate.

How about leading_path_in_use() instead? Whether files in the path
can be clobbered or not is checked in a separate step, which is
currently called ok_to_remove().

Clemens

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-10 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-02 19:25 untracked symlinks are less precious than untracked files? Johannes Sixt
2011-02-02 20:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-02 22:24   ` Johannes Sixt
2011-02-05 18:18     ` [PATCH] Demonstrate breakage: checkout overwrites untracked symlink with directory Johannes Sixt
2011-02-05 18:33       ` Clemens Buchacher
2011-02-09 23:48         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-10 21:49           ` Clemens Buchacher [this message]
2011-02-20 12:13         ` [PATCH] do not overwrite untracked symlinks Clemens Buchacher
2011-02-21  7:15           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-21 19:46             ` Clemens Buchacher
2011-02-22  6:54               ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-22 19:26                 ` Clemens Buchacher
2011-02-22 20:01                   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-15  7:24       ` [PATCH] Demonstrate breakage: checkout overwrites untracked symlink with directory Johannes Sixt

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