From: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:28:01 GMT
Subject: Re: git on afs
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710181613420.30020@torch.nrlssc.navy.mil>
In-Reply-To: <20071018203106.GA13518@fries.net>

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Todd T. Fries wrote:

> 1) git presumes that link() works fine across subdirs; in afs land,
>   hardlinks do not succeed ever

I think this already falls back to rename() on failure.
Take a look at move_temp_to_file(), this is the only
place that calls link_temp_to_file().

link() on afs returns non-zero? and not EEXIST right?

-brandon