Without this patch, symbolic links are turned into empty files. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl | 17 ++++++++++++----- 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html