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Re: [PATCH] git-svn: allow disabling expensive broken symlink checks

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 5, 2009, 08:02 UTC
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Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:
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> Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
>
>> > > Previously, git-svn would just stop importing and refuse to continue.
>> > > So allowing the user to enable it would be a problem; too.  I don't
>> > > recall the error being easy to distinguish from other errors.
>
> Actually I was wrong on git-svn refusing to continue.  git-svn will
> create a regular 100644 file with "link path/to/dest" as its contents.
> git-svn only croaks on checksum differences with the blob itself; it
> does not have an easy way to verify the mode change => 120000 if it
> happened previously.
Thanks for being thorough.
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  4. Sverre RabbelierJan 31, 2009
  5. git-svn: allow disabling expensive broken symlink checksEric Wong, Feb 1, 2009
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 2, 2009
  7. Eric WongFeb 3, 2009
  8. Junio C HamanoFeb 3, 2009
  9. Eric WongFeb 3, 2009
  10. Eric WongFeb 5, 2009
  11. Junio C HamanoFeb 5, 2009

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