cogito: cannot add dangling symlinks whereas git can

Gerrit Pape· Jan 2, 2006, 12:15 UTC · lore

I'm not sure why cg-add checks files to commit with test -f.

Regards, Gerrit.

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diff --git a/cg-add b/cg-add
index 33cdc7f..382f8d5 100755
--- a/cg-add
+++ b/cg-add
@@ -61,9 +61,6 @@ for file in "${ARGS[@]}"; do
 			echo "$file is a directory (use cg-add -r?)" >&2
 			error=1
 		fi
-	elif [ ! -f "$absfile" ]; then
-		echo "$file does not exist or is not a regular file" >&2
-		error=1
 	else
 		echo "$file" >>"$TMPFILE"
 	fi

Petr Baudis· Feb 7, 2006, 00:58 UTC · re: Gerrit Pape · lore

Re: cogito: cannot add dangling symlinks whereas git can

> forwarded 313596 upstream
> quit
> 
> Hi, cg-add refuses to add special files such as dangling symlinks while
> git can handle them just fine.  Please see http://bugs.debian.org/313596
> 
> I'm not sure why cg-add checks files to commit with test -f.

Thanks,

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