From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 10:42:52 GMT
Subject: Re: git-bisect broken in 1.2.4
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0605021241300.3795@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vpsiwopkv.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 2 May 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> writes:
> 
> > You can rebuild git with USE_SYMLINK_HEAD if you really want the old
> > behaviour.
> 
> That probably is a sane thing to do.
> 
> We should introduce prefer_symlink_refs configuration to work
> with projects whose older version of build infrastructure
> depends on symlink refs.
> 
> The patch is on top of post 1.3.1 git, but .c and .h part should
> apply more-or-less cleanly to older code base.  You should 
> be able to say:
> 
> 	[core]
>         prefersymlinkrefs = true

Why not just use the existing method:

	[core]
		onlyusesymrefs = false

Hmm?

Ciao,
Dscho