From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@twinsun.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:37:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] cogito --- don't overwrite metadata files in place (breaks CoW use)
Message-ID: <loom.20050712T233332-364@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050712190552.GA7178@taniwha.stupidest.org>

Chris Wedgwood <cw <at> f00f.org> writes:

>  if [ "$newhead" ]; then
>  	echo "Committed as $newhead."
> -	echo $newhead >$_git/HEAD
> +	echo_to_file $newhead $_git/HEAD
>  	[ "$merging" ] && rm $_git/merging $_git/merging-sym $_git/merge-base

Good intentions, but wouldn't the above clobber symlinked HEAD?

Not a fundamental flaw, though.  You need to see if it is a symlink,
readlink it (repeatedly until you get a regular file or dangling symlink
target that does not exist --- immediately after git-init-db has such a
HEAD) and run your echo_to_file on the link target.