From: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 03:04:46 GMT
Subject: Re: "git-checkout-cache -f -a" failure
Message-ID: <118833cc05050920045204db03@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v64xru83t.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

> Changing files vs directories _is_ a big change and happens
> rarely in practice; I think the current behaviour is
> justified---it makes the user take notice and the user _should_
> take notice.

File vs. directory was just the easiest way to demonstrate.  In the presense
of symlinks I am not sure you will always get a warning.  It'll be more of a
silent file-corrupting failure kind of thing.  (Somewhat worse if yyy points
to /your/home/.ssh and zzz is "authorized_keys".)

Morten