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Re: [PATCH] Disable USE_SYMLINK_HEAD by default

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CMCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 15, 2005, 10:31 UTC
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Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 23:03 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> The one format is that .git/HEAD can either be a symlink or
>> regular file text symref; both variants are tested -- wouldn't
>> that be good enough?
>
> No.  Even if git itself is tested, other tools are not.  What's worse,
> the developers of those tools don't even know they are supposed to test
> for two HEAD formats unless they track git changes and mailing lists
> very carefully.
>
> In particular, StGIT still needs fixing.

StGIT has been fixed for this in the latest snapshot (but not in the latest release). It now uses "git-symbolic-ref HEAD" to get the name of the current branch.

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Catalin
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  1. Disable USE_SYMLINK_HEAD by defaultPavel Roskin, Nov 15, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 15, 2005
  3. Pavel RoskinNov 15, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoNov 15, 2005
  5. Junio C HamanoNov 15, 2005
  6. Johannes SchindelinNov 15, 2005
  7. Petr BaudisNov 15, 2005
  8. Johannes SchindelinNov 15, 2005
  9. Adrien BeauNov 15, 2005
  10. Pavel RoskinNov 15, 2005
  11. Junio C HamanoNov 15, 2005
  12. Pavel RoskinNov 15, 2005
  13. Nick HengeveldNov 15, 2005
  14. Linus TorvaldsNov 15, 2005
  15. Petr BaudisNov 15, 2005
  16. Linus TorvaldsNov 15, 2005
  17. Junio C HamanoNov 15, 2005
  18. Pavel RoskinNov 15, 2005
  19. Junio C HamanoNov 15, 2005
  20. Pavel RoskinNov 16, 2005
  21. Junio C HamanoNov 16, 2005
  22. Josef WeidendorferNov 16, 2005
  23. Catalin MarinasNov 15, 2005
  24. Pavel RoskinNov 15, 2005

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