From: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 12:15:17 GMT
Subject: cogito: cannot add dangling symlinks whereas git can
Message-ID: <20060102120912.13409.qmail@c3aed7b85ae352.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>

forwarded 313596 upstream
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Hi, cg-add refuses to add special files such as dangling symlinks while
git can handle them just fine.  Please see http://bugs.debian.org/313596

I'm not sure why cg-add checks files to commit with test -f.

Regards, Gerrit.

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diff --git a/cg-add b/cg-add
index 33cdc7f..382f8d5 100755
--- a/cg-add
+++ b/cg-add
@@ -61,9 +61,6 @@ for file in "${ARGS[@]}"; do
 			echo "$file is a directory (use cg-add -r?)" >&2
 			error=1
 		fi
-	elif [ ! -f "$absfile" ]; then
-		echo "$file does not exist or is not a regular file" >&2
-		error=1
 	else
 		echo "$file" >>"$TMPFILE"
 	fi