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Re: [PATCH] git-cvsserver: handle change type T

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 17, 2008, 08:01 UTC
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Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> writes:
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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> ...
>> 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?
>
> It was before too.  The problem arises if one found the problem,
> deleted the symlink, added the regular file -- and now cvsserver stops
> working at all. :-(

Yeah, I see why $git_perms fall back to "rw" now around l.2620 -- if file mode is 120000, none of the r/w/x would have been added in.

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  1. git-cvsserver: handle change type TPaolo Bonzini, Mar 16, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoMar 16, 2008
  3. Paolo BonziniMar 16, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 16, 2008
  5. Paolo BonziniMar 17, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoMar 17, 2008
  7. Martin LanghoffMar 17, 2008
  8. Paolo BonziniMar 17, 2008

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