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From: "Sverre Rabbelier" <alturin@gmail.com>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>,
	"Mark Levedahl" <mlevedahl@gmail.com>,
	"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Commit cce8d6fdb introduces file t/t5100/nul, git tree is now incompatible with Cygwin (and probably Windows)
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 19:46:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd6139dc0805281046n3d811b83l1a1c15cc6e2d8122@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vfxs2uytm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Please learn to think before typing, let alone sending such a message to
> waste other people's time.

Why so harsh?

> What alternatives do you want to implement?  Certainly not silently
> creating "nul-garbage" file instead and pretend that nothing bad happened,
> as that would lead to madness.

Or instead we could have a '-f' switch or such with checkout that
allows you to checkout a revision that contains a bad file, but with
that file missing. Of course this needn't happen silently, a big
warning saying "could not checkout file %s because of %s" may still be
issued.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-28 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-26 14:01 Commit cce8d6fdb introduces file t/t5100/nul, git tree is now incompatible with Cygwin (and probably Windows) Mark Levedahl
2008-05-26 14:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-26 17:37   ` Mark Levedahl
2008-05-26 21:28     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-26 22:49       ` Mark Levedahl
2008-05-26 23:10         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-26 23:15         ` Johannes Schindelin
     [not found]   ` <483ADA17.3080401@viscovery.net>
2008-05-26 21:21     ` [PATCH] Makefile: wt-status.h is also a lib header Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-26 21:54       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-26 23:03         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-27 13:26   ` Commit cce8d6fdb introduces file t/t5100/nul, git tree is now incompatible with Cygwin (and probably Windows) Eric Blake
2008-05-28  6:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-28  9:46   ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-05-28 15:53     ` Lea Wiemann
2008-05-28 15:58       ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-05-28 21:39         ` Jakub Narebski
2008-05-29 13:22     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-29 14:58       ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-05-29 16:05         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-29 16:15           ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-05-31 17:37         ` Steffen Prohaska
2008-05-31 18:28           ` [PATCH] gitweb: Remove gitweb/test/ directory Jakub Narebski
2008-05-31 18:49             ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-05-31 23:19               ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-01  0:19                 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-01  9:42                   ` Kay Sievers
2008-06-01 19:07                 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-06-01  1:06             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-01  1:59               ` Jakub Narebski
2008-05-28 16:33   ` Commit cce8d6fdb introduces file t/t5100/nul, git tree is now incompatible with Cygwin (and probably Windows) Avery Pennarun
2008-05-28 17:24     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-28 17:46       ` Sverre Rabbelier [this message]
2008-05-28 17:52       ` Avery Pennarun
2008-05-28 18:27         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-28 18:19       ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-05-28 18:37         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-28 20:06           ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-05-28 20:43             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-28 21:19               ` [PATCH] "git checkout -- paths..." should signal error Junio C Hamano
2008-05-29  6:28                 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2008-05-29 13:05                 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-05-28 21:41               ` Commit cce8d6fdb introduces file t/t5100/nul, git tree is now incompatible with Cygwin (and probably Windows) Daniel Barkalow

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