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Re: Getting rid of symlinks in .git?

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NHNick Hengeveld <nickh@reactrix.com>
Date
Nov 11, 2005, 15:55 UTC
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<20051111155525.GD4051@reactrix.com>
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0511111636400.16210@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 04:40:43PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Note that the only symlink/symref you usually have is .git/HEAD. But it 
> feels wrong to take the worse approach in *all* cases, just because 
> *one* brain-fscked file system/operating system does not support the 
> superior approach.

Symlinks at the other end of an HTTP transport are also similarly brain-challenged.

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  1. Petr BaudisNov 10, 2005
  2. Simon RichterNov 11, 2005
  3. Alex RiesenNov 11, 2005
  4. Petr BaudisNov 11, 2005
  5. Junio C HamanoNov 15, 2005
  6. Alex RiesenNov 15, 2005
  7. Johannes SchindelinNov 11, 2005
  8. Petr BaudisNov 11, 2005
  9. Johannes SchindelinNov 11, 2005
  10. Petr BaudisNov 11, 2005
  11. Johannes SchindelinNov 11, 2005
  12. Nick HengeveldNov 11, 2005
  13. Alex RiesenNov 11, 2005

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