From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:36:00 GMT
Subject: Re: On pathnames
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801251134570.5731@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <7vprvq7cy7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> 
> > $ git checkout branch
> > Warning: xt_CONNMARK.c conflicts with xt_connmark.c; not checking it out
> > $ git checkout xt_CONNMARK.c --as xt_CONNMARK_caps.c
> > $ edit xt_CONNMARK_caps.c
> > $ git add xt_CONNMARK_caps.c
> 
> Heh, I like that very much.

It would make it easier to test on Linux, too, yes.

But then, it would break the build process all the same.

And the implementation would _need_ the index extension Linus seems to 
resent so.

Ciao,
Dscho