From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 22:44:41 GMT
Subject: Re: git and symlinks as tracked content
Message-ID: <7v8y2wszdy.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505031446220.31626@sam.ics.uci.edu>

>>>>> "AG" == Andreas Gal <gal@uci.edu> writes:

AG> Whether you use an explicit "dev" type or an implicit "dev"
AG> type that calls itself "blob" and uses a magic mode flag to
AG> tell checkout that it needs special treatment doesn't make a
AG> difference.

True.  The use of word "wrong" in my message was _wrong_.  But
my gut feeling is that the code that has to deal with the dev
and symlink stuff would be simpler if we just stick to the blob
type.

AG> When was the last time you tried to version control /dev? ;)

Tried?  Never.  Wished?  Number of times.  It's just that there
is no such SCM that does this natively, so I keep "ls -l /dev"
output under CVS control as a rough approximation.