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Re: [gitolite] symlink hooks instead of copying them

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Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date
Feb 4, 2010, 06:17 UTC
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On Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 14:46:57 (+1300) martin f krafft writes:
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>also sprach Sitaram Chamarty <sitaram@atc.tcs.com> [2010.02.04.1428 +1300]:
>> I'm ok with symlinking stuff; a couple of "cp" commands
>> would change to "ln" :)  Let me try it out (and make sure it
>> works for upgrades also...)
>
>ln -sf even.

Does 'ln -sf' work reliably on all distros? I seem to recall on Ubuntu 7.10 that this was broken.

Bill
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  7. Bill LearFeb 4, 2010
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