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Re: [RFC PATCH] cogito --- don't overwrite metadata files in place (breaks CoW use)

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Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date
Jul 13, 2005, 07:03 UTC
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<pan.2005.07.13.07.03.26.398212@smurf.noris.de>
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Hi, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> Symlink'd trees don't really make sense to me (they seem fragile and
> somewhat pointless) but perhaps I'm missing something?

You are ;-) the tree itsels is no symlinked, but HEAD points to refs/heads/<branch> by default.

Don't clobber that, please.
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