Re: [PATCH] Add a new lstat implementation based on Win32 API, and make stat use that implementation too.

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 3, 2007, 12:33 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709031329590.28586@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <46DBF5AC.6070400@trolltech.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin said the following on 03.09.2007 13:39:
> > On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:
> > > Robin Rosenberg said the following on 02.09.2007 22:27:
> > > > It does now: See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363866.aspx
> > > Yeah, I know about Vista's improved support for symbolic links.
> > > However, I think we can let that lay for a while, until we decide
> > > to make Git generate proper symlinks on Vista. I don't see it as
> > > a 1st priority at the moment, and we can always add the needed
> > > functionality in a separate stat() function later.
> > 
> > ... and force everybody to upgrade to Vista, thereby working for
> > Microsoft for free?  You _know_ that I will oppose that change.
> 
> ;-) I wouldn't dream of it!

Hehe.

> Nah, my comment was more 'allow usage of proper Symlinks on Vista' at a 
> later point. I would still argue that the default would be what we have 
> today. So, it would have to be an option.

Okay, I could live with that.

> But seeing what they've done to the symlinks there, it might be far 
> fetched. We'll worry about that (much) later..

Yes, it is funny how they do it over and over and over again. Embrace, "Extend", Extinguish. And I thought that eventually people would be clever enough to realise...

Ciao, Dscho