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Re: Cherry-pick with symlinks fails horribly

From
Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 11, 2010, 12:16 UTC
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On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 07:57, Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 March 2010 02:28:30 Alexander Gladysh wrote:
>> I'm complaining about Git symlink handling again. This time it is
>>  cherry-pick.
> I can reproduce the bug here on Linux. And Git v1.6.0 has the same bug.
> So I suspect an old bug in unpack_trees.c. I will try to have another look at
> it this evening, but I am not familiar with that code.
I have found my old bug-report. There is even some patch in that thread.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/120741/
Not sure if it is the same issue or if the patch was even merged in though...

HTH, Alexander.

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