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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Peter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [BUG] git-new-workdir doesn't understand packed refs
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:17:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vlkgph7i0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070418174350.GB5913@xp.machine.xx> (Peter Baumann's message of "Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:43:50 +0200")

Peter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:23:14AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
>> Recursively dereferencing the symbolic link by hand to a limit
>> to avoid infinite recursion (error out when we reach the limit)
>> would be a more elaborate solution that probably is the right
>> thing to do.
>>
> I thought about the case where packed-refs is a symlink to another symlink
> and then decided that it's not worth to implement this because a workdir
> should be linked to a _repo_ and not another workdir.

That's incredibly weak, as the initial motivation of this patch
is that you did not want to say "you should run gc only in the
_repo_ not in workdir".

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-18 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-17 16:17 [BUG] git-new-workdir doesn't understand packed refs Peter Baumann
2007-04-17 21:55 ` Julian Phillips
2007-04-18  5:52   ` Peter Baumann
2007-04-18  7:26     ` Julian Phillips
2007-04-18  7:40     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-18  8:11       ` Peter Baumann
2007-04-18 11:55         ` Julian Phillips
2007-04-18 16:23           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-18 17:43             ` Peter Baumann
2007-04-18 18:17               ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-04-18 18:31                 ` Peter Baumann
2007-04-18 18:42                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-18 21:08                     ` Peter Baumann
2007-04-18 21:31                       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-19  5:35                         ` [PATCH] Add test for symlinked .git/packed-refs Peter Baumann
2007-04-19  6:06                           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-20 16:52                             ` [PATCH] pack-refs: dereference .git/packed-refs if it is a symlink Peter Baumann
2007-04-21 20:05                               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-18 18:43                   ` [BUG] git-new-workdir doesn't understand packed refs Julian Phillips
2007-04-18 10:28       ` [PATCH] pack-refs: dereference .git/packed-refs if it is a symlink Peter Baumann
2007-04-18 16:09         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-18 17:47           ` Peter Baumann

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