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Re: What's cooking in git.git

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Jan 16, 2006, 10:53 UTC
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<20060116105356.GH28365@pasky.or.cz>
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Dear diary, on Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 01:04:41AM CET, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...

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>  - Disable USE_SYMLINK_HEAD by default (Pavel Roskin).
> 
>    This has been on hold for almost two months -- forever in git
>    timescale.
> 
>    One offender that could have been broken by this change was
>    fixed recently (gitweb), so this can go in anytime now.  Do
>    people still care about it?  The argument for the change when
>    it was proposed was "then we only have to worry about one
>    format of .git/HEAD, not two", and it still is a valid
>    argument from Porcelain writers' point of view.  To be
>    honest, since I do not do Porcelain, I am neutral about it.

Yes, I'd still be pleased to see this. Cogito should be ready for this for long enough, as far as I'm concerned.

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Message 3 of 3 in “What's cooking in git.git”
  1. Junio C HamanoJan 12, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 14, 2006
  3. Petr BaudisJan 16, 2006

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