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Re: [PATCH] Add git-relink-script to fix up missing hardlinks

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Jun 26, 2005, 19:31 UTC
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>>>>> "JCH" == Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

JCH> Your latest version has an option not to die which is very JCH> good, but in a very narrow corner case, without comparing JCH> the file contents, I think the code would still do a wrong JCH> thing.

Having said that, the corner case is narrow enough (and hopefully to be gone soon) that I think the current version is perfectly acceptable for inclusion.

Linus, please apply. What it does is useful to encourage the "one topic, one tree" use pattern, the officially recommended way IIUC.

I am a bit puzzled, though, why Jeff was the original requestor for this feature --- I thought he handles 50 heads in one repository which means there is no multiple repositories to relink across.

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  1. Add git-relink-script to fix up missing hardlinksRyan Anderson, Jun 26, 2005
  2. Jeff GarzikJun 26, 2005
  3. Junio C HamanoJun 26, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 26, 2005
  5. Jeff GarzikJun 26, 2005
  6. Jan HarkesJun 27, 2005

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