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Re: [PATCH] fix cg-fetch so that it doesn't use -d (to work with POSIX cp)

From
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date
Nov 21, 2005, 08:46 UTC
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Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> I simply removed -d, since I don't know how necessary it is to make
> it work better, but it seems to work fine on OSX now.
>

This enforces symrefs instead of symlinks when cloning locally. There have been some discussions on the topic before, and the decision was to maintain symlink support on filesystems that can do it. OTOH, Pasky (cogito author) was all for only supporting symrefs, so perhaps he'll accept this anyways.

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  1. fix cg-fetch so that it doesn't use -d (to work with POSIX cp)Randal L. Schwartz, Nov 21, 2005
  2. Andreas EricssonNov 21, 2005

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