From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Sverre Rabbelier" 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 Message-ID: References: <483AC2CE.7090801@gmail.com> <7vy75vvtxo.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <32541b130805280933r573d59d0mf9cdc09f5e5a6a17@mail.gmail.com> <7vfxs2uytm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Reply-To: sverre@rabbelier.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Avery Pennarun" , "Mark Levedahl" , "Git Mailing List" , "Johannes Schindelin" To: "Junio C Hamano" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 28 19:47:15 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K1Pjx-0005IQ-6M for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 19:47:09 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751982AbYE1RqR (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2008 13:46:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751940AbYE1RqQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2008 13:46:16 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.168]:1352 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751949AbYE1RqQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2008 13:46:16 -0400 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 27so2632770wfd.4 for ; Wed, 28 May 2008 10:46:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=mLZXtg5/P0FXxek2xUo1LCskf0P+WcOyin0qeAXNMG8=; b=VQuS7A9GUq/doqdCjXqKBOQQbRpul8fmSWGl6zup02gaqYYpQ9m61WqVYyqVolymZQOJmRQvhLeoAw0K8EbLoAotwxXUkselN+cWHEGQf1mPJfZcBVcUZt8wiqU9OdnIi6M5Eq7zNWHvk75QmylGuTYQXZxfxI99iV21YL3e8W4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rW0q7vC7q0WSvPNYWOlmWz79UyvWIt2IjarrGPuw6SI2Sd6uwoHcX/g4JxsG2SOchZjBF2coamZodJNbhyRxD5diuBKL6QorqxPaWSYD2SWf2mWKhwLSM4h29lBtEO1BB+B/8BNhGrkioXZOLsx1Ztf+TNMxOhIMGauV7Z1sHyo= Received: by 10.142.188.3 with SMTP id l3mr631446wff.174.1211996775826; Wed, 28 May 2008 10:46:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.10.16 with HTTP; Wed, 28 May 2008 10:46:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7vfxs2uytm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Junio C Hamano 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