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Re: [RFC] Change handling of RelNotes

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SCStephen Cuppett <cuppett@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 31, 2007, 12:52 UTC
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Sorry, I didn't mean to imply a demand on anybody, or mandate anybody change their workflow if really awkward or inconvenient. Just new to git and was trying some things and noticed this oddity. In software test, so I typically file reports for usability nits as well as big things, and never expect to fix them myself. Used to my "recommendations" getting rejected too. ;)

Just trying to lower a barrier to entry in a weird case....

I tested out the patch on Linux with a regular filesystem and with a memory stick. It picked it up and did the right thing with RelNotes in both cases, leaving the symlink alone on ext3 and changing it to a regular file on the memory stick.

I tried compiling it on Windows (cygwin), but ended up with:
/home/stcupp/git/builtin-init-db.c:305: undefined reference to `_xmkstemp'

I tried including git-compat-util.h and some other things to resolve it, but was unable with my limited knowledge of their toolchain.

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Message 11 of 12 in “[RFC] Change handling of RelNotes”
  1. Stephen CuppettAug 31, 2007
  2. Petr BaudisAug 31, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 31, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 31, 2007
  5. Marius Storm-OlsenAug 31, 2007
  6. Nanako ShiraishiAug 31, 2007
  7. Junio C HamanoAug 31, 2007
  8. autodetect core.symlinks in git-initJunio C Hamano, Aug 31, 2007
  9. Nanako ShiraishiAug 31, 2007
  10. Marius Storm-OlsenAug 31, 2007
  11. Stephen CuppettAug 31, 2007
  12. Junio C HamanoAug 31, 2007

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