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Re: git and symlinks as tracked content

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KSKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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May 3, 2005, 20:09 UTC
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On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 13:05 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Tue, 3 May 2005, Andreas Gal wrote:
> > 
> > Yuck. Thats really ugly. Right now all files have a uniform touch to them. 
> > For every hash you can locate the file, determine its type/tag, unpack it, 
> > and check the SHA1 hash. The proposal above breaks all that. Why not just 
> > introduce a new object type "dev" and put major minor in there. It 
> > will still always hash to the same SHA1 hash value, but fits much better in the 
> > overall design. 
> 
> Hey, I don't personally care that much. I don't see anybody using 
> character device nodes in the kernel tree, and I don't think most SCM's 
> support stuff like that anyway ;)

Well, you need to be root to create device nodes, that is not a usual requirement for an SCM checkout. :)

Kay
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Message 7 of 29 in “git and symlinks as tracked content”
  1. Kay SieversMay 3, 2005
  2. Linus TorvaldsMay 3, 2005
  3. Morten WelinderMay 3, 2005
  4. H. Peter AnvinMay 3, 2005
  5. Andreas GalMay 3, 2005
  6. Linus TorvaldsMay 3, 2005
  7. Kay SieversMay 3, 2005
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 3, 2005
  9. Andreas GalMay 3, 2005
  10. Junio C HamanoMay 3, 2005
  11. Sym-links, b/c-special files, pipes, ... Scope CreepBrian O'Mahoney, May 4, 2005
  12. H. Peter AnvinMay 3, 2005
  13. Junio C HamanoMay 3, 2005
  14. H. Peter AnvinMay 3, 2005
  15. Linus TorvaldsMay 3, 2005
  16. Junio C HamanoMay 3, 2005
  17. David A. WheelerMay 4, 2005
  18. Daniel BarkalowMay 4, 2005
  19. Alan ChandlerMay 5, 2005
  20. read-only git repositoriesDavid Lang, May 5, 2005
  21. SeanMay 5, 2005
  22. David A. WheelerMay 6, 2005
  23. Daniel BarkalowMay 5, 2005
  24. Junio C HamanoMay 3, 2005
  25. Kay SieversMay 4, 2005
  26. Junio C HamanoMay 4, 2005
  27. Kay SieversMay 5, 2005
  28. Junio C HamanoMay 5, 2005
  29. Kay SieversMay 5, 2005

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