Re: On pathnames

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 25, 2008, 04:18 UTC
Message-ID: <7vtzl27d1z.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90801241955j672ca508q2eb691be5e1d328f@mail.gmail.com>

"Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

Show 6 quoted lines

> There is one thing that I don't see in Junio's plan...
>
>  - a warning during checkout if the index contains "equivalent" paths
> that will clobber eachother during checkout.
>  - an optional warning/error during add, to be raised if I am adding a
> path that is equivalent to an already-existing path in the index

Thanks. I think these and many other issues need to be worked out.

In my message, I did not even try to be exhaustive. I outlined the parts that would most deeply affect the parts I care more deeply about, which is the plumbing. As I said many times, I do not do Porcelains ;-).

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.