From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:01:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-cvsserver: handle change type T
Message-ID: <7vve3lbwz9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <47DD9890.3060005@gnu.org>

Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> writes:

> 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.

Martin, likes, dislikes?