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Re: [PATCH] Demonstrate breakage: checkout overwrites untracked symlink with directory

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Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Date
Feb 10, 2011, 21:49 UTC
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On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 03:48:12PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> Perhaps can-clobber-to-checkout would be a good candidate.

How about leading_path_in_use() instead? Whether files in the path can be clobbered or not is checked in a separate step, which is currently called ok_to_remove().

Clemens
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Message 7 of 14 in “untracked symlinks are less precious than untracked files?”
  1. Johannes SixtFeb 2, 2011
  2. Junio C HamanoFeb 2, 2011
  3. Johannes SixtFeb 2, 2011
  4. Demonstrate breakage: checkout overwrites untracked symlink with directoryJohannes Sixt, Feb 5, 2011
  5. Clemens BuchacherFeb 5, 2011
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 9, 2011
  7. Clemens BuchacherFeb 10, 2011
  8. do not overwrite untracked symlinksClemens Buchacher, Feb 20, 2011
  9. Junio C HamanoFeb 21, 2011
  10. Clemens BuchacherFeb 21, 2011
  11. Junio C HamanoFeb 22, 2011
  12. Clemens BuchacherFeb 22, 2011
  13. Junio C HamanoFeb 22, 2011
  14. Johannes SixtFeb 15, 2011

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