# [PATCH] fix cg-fetch so that it doesn't use -d (to work with POSIX cp) 2 messages from 2005-11-21 to 2005-11-21. Participants: Randal L. Schwartz, Andreas Ericsson. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/2621 ## Randal L. Schwartz, 2005-11-21 04:10 Subject: [PATCH] fix cg-fetch so that it doesn't use -d (to work with POSIX cp) Message-ID: <863blq4p4x.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/863blq4p4x.fsf%40blue.stonehenge.com ``` I simply removed -d, since I don't know how necessary it is to make it work better, but it seems to work fine on OSX now. remove -d flag from cp --- commit 3e7bc5b605f58376688f1cf195f51965becd5c3f tree 1c53f8753ff9c31f0ff2692b64754ad48e45f143 parent 22ff47e9b3c5fc8aa2efbc5ac8690b06b868ef6f author Randal L. Schwartz Sun, 20 Nov 2005 20:01:38 -0800 committer Randal L. Schwartz Sun, 20 Nov 2005 20:01:38 -0800 cg-fetch | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/cg-fetch b/cg-fetch index 5a2039f..eb89ebe 100755 --- a/cg-fetch +++ b/cg-fetch @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ get_local() cp_flags_l="$cp_flags_l -L" shift else - cp_flags_l="$cp_flags_l -dpR" + cp_flags_l="$cp_flags_l -pR" fi [ "$1" = "-i" ] && shift -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! ``` ## Andreas Ericsson, 2005-11-21 08:46 Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix cg-fetch so that it doesn't use -d (to work with POSIX cp) Message-ID: <43818966.7020800@op5.se> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/43818966.7020800%40op5.se In-Reply-To: <863blq4p4x.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> ``` Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > I simply removed -d, since I don't know how necessary it is to make > it work better, but it seems to work fine on OSX now. > This enforces symrefs instead of symlinks when cloning locally. There have been some discussions on the topic before, and the decision was to maintain symlink support on filesystems that can do it. OTOH, Pasky (cogito author) was all for only supporting symrefs, so perhaps he'll accept this anyways. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 ```