From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:21:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-cvsserver: handle change type T
Message-ID: <7v63vmicvf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <E1Jay7s-0000dO-IX@fencepost.gnu.org>

Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> writes:

> git-cvsserver does not support changes of type T (file type change,
> e.g. symlink->real file).  This patch treats them the same as changes
> of type M.

Hmm.

Do cvs clients even know how to handle symlinks, or will this patch just
start sending the readlink(2) result as if it is just a regular file
contents?