From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:02:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-svn: allow disabling expensive broken symlink checks
Message-ID: <7vljslgvkv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090205074215.GA24887@dcvr.yhbt.net>

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:

> 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.