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Re: [PATCH] Disable USE_SYMLINK_HEAD by default

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Nov 15, 2005, 14:24 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0511151518210.23020@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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Hi,
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
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> Dear diary, on Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 12:09:42PM CET, I got a letter
> where Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> said that...
> > I think Junio is right: we should not force everybody not to use 
> > symlinks, only because there happens to be VFAT-, SMB- or HTTP-shared 
> > repositories. As Junio says, if there are people experiencing problems 
> > because they lack symbolic links, they should fix it.
> 
> I'm ambivalent here. I would like to have just a single behaviour here, 
> since the symbolic ref otherwise really does not get much testing. But I 
> can also understand that we are breaking tools here.
> 
> Still, for the reason above, I think we should aim at the symbolic refs
> being the canonical format in the next major release after 1.0, giving
> users time to fix their tools. I can see no advantage in symlinks except
> the backwards compatibility - speed argument was presented, but I don't
> buy that until I see hard data supporting that.

<yousortofaskedforit> Well, I can see no good reason for symrefs, except for backwards compatibility! Modern systems do support symlinks, you know?

Let´s face it. The main target for git is not Windows users. If we really want to support all idiocies of all possible ones, how about this one:

If I clone a repository to a USB stick on cygwin, and try to access it from my iBook, it does not work, because for *backward compatibility* reasons, files fitting the 8.3 format are stored in UPPER CASE.

So, I would like to have support for UPPER CASE files in .git, please? And since I cannot do my own testing, please could you force everybody´s git to write OBJECTS and MASTER in UPPER CASE? </yousortofaskedforit>

Ciao, Dscho

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  1. Disable USE_SYMLINK_HEAD by defaultPavel Roskin, Nov 15, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 15, 2005
  3. Pavel RoskinNov 15, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoNov 15, 2005
  5. Junio C HamanoNov 15, 2005
  6. Johannes SchindelinNov 15, 2005
  7. Petr BaudisNov 15, 2005
  8. Johannes SchindelinNov 15, 2005
  9. Adrien BeauNov 15, 2005
  10. Pavel RoskinNov 15, 2005
  11. Junio C HamanoNov 15, 2005
  12. Pavel RoskinNov 15, 2005
  13. Nick HengeveldNov 15, 2005
  14. Linus TorvaldsNov 15, 2005
  15. Petr BaudisNov 15, 2005
  16. Linus TorvaldsNov 15, 2005
  17. Junio C HamanoNov 15, 2005
  18. Pavel RoskinNov 15, 2005
  19. Junio C HamanoNov 15, 2005
  20. Pavel RoskinNov 16, 2005
  21. Junio C HamanoNov 16, 2005
  22. Josef WeidendorferNov 16, 2005
  23. Catalin MarinasNov 15, 2005
  24. Pavel RoskinNov 15, 2005

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