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patchimport-tars: support symlinks

Subject: [PATCH] import-tars: support symlinks

## tl;dr

One message between Jun 17, 2009 and Jun 17, 2009. Diffs are folded; open one to read it.

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Johannes Schindelin· Jun 17, 2009, 12:49 UTC · lore
Without this patch, symbolic links are turned into empty files.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl |   17 ++++++++++++-----
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Show changes to contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl +12 −5
diff --git a/contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl b/contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl
index 6309d14..78e40d2 100755
--- a/contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl
+++ b/contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl
@@ -82,10 +82,16 @@ foreach my $tar_file (@ARGV)
 		$mtime = oct $mtime;
 		next if $typeflag == 5; # directory
 
-		print FI "blob\n", "mark :$next_mark\n", "data $size\n";
-		while ($size > 0 && read(I, $_, 512) == 512) {
-			print FI substr($_, 0, $size);
-			$size -= 512;
+		print FI "blob\n", "mark :$next_mark\n";
+		if ($typeflag == 2) { # symbolic link
+			print FI "data ", length($linkname), "\n", $linkname;
+			$mode = 0120000;
+		} else {
+			print FI "data $size\n";
+			while ($size > 0 && read(I, $_, 512) == 512) {
+				print FI substr($_, 0, $size);
+				$size -= 512;
+			}
 		}
 		print FI "\n";
 
@@ -118,7 +124,8 @@ EOF
 	{
 		my ($mark, $mode) = @{$files{$path}};
 		$path =~ s,^([^/]+)/,, if $have_top_dir;
-		printf FI "M %o :%i %s\n", $mode & 0111 ? 0755 : 0644, $mark, $path;
+		$mode = $mode & 0111 ? 0755 : 0644 unless $mode == 0120000;
+		printf FI "M %o :%i %s\n", $mode, $mark, $path;
 	}
 	print FI "\n";
 
-- 
1.6.3.284.g6fecc

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