Re: [PATCH] Disable USE_SYMLINK_HEAD by default
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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
- Date
- Nov 15, 2005, 12:18 UTC
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- <20051115121854.GV30496@pasky.or.cz>
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- <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511151207070.21671@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Dear diary, on Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 12:09:42PM CET, I got a letter where Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> said that...
> I think Junio is right: we should not force everybody not to use symlinks, > only because there happens to be VFAT-, SMB- or HTTP-shared repositories. > As Junio says, if there are people experiencing problems because they lack > symbolic links, they should fix it.
I'm ambivalent here. I would like to have just a single behaviour here, since the symbolic ref otherwise really does not get much testing. But I can also understand that we are breaking tools here.
Still, for the reason above, I think we should aim at the symbolic refs being the canonical format in the next major release after 1.0, giving users time to fix their tools. I can see no advantage in symlinks except the backwards compatibility - speed argument was presented, but I don't buy that until I see hard data supporting that.
> On the other hand, I think it would be useful to be able to configure the > behaviour via .git/config.
Yes, I would very much like to have this. I still want to go symrefs-only for public repositories created for cg-admin-setuprepo, so that fetching over HTTP works properly.
-- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.