Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I am perfectly fine with a change that allows a local clone to skip > and not error out when such a "keep" marker cannot be copied, I do > not know if it is a good idea to unconditionally skip and not even > attempt to copy it. That is, something like this, perhaps? We could even create an empty file, as it is only the presense that matters for ".keep" files, but I found it a bit too much special casing to my taste. builtin/clone.c | 9 ++++++++- t/t5701-clone-local.sh | 15 +++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/builtin/clone.c b/builtin/clone.c index 66bff57..4b7cd9b 100644 --- a/builtin/clone.c +++ b/builtin/clone.c @@ -356,8 +356,15 @@ static void copy_or_link_directory(struct strbuf *src, struct strbuf *dest, die_errno(_("failed to create link '%s'"), dest->buf); option_no_hardlinks = 1; } - if (copy_file_with_time(dest->buf, src->buf, 0666)) + if (copy_file_with_time(dest->buf, src->buf, 0666)) { + if (!strncmp(src->buf + src_baselen, "/pack/pack-", 11) && + !suffixcmp(src->buf, ".keep")) + goto skip; + die_errno(_("failed to copy file to '%s'"), dest->buf); + skip: + warning("skipping %s", src->buf); + } } closedir(dir); } diff --git a/t/t5701-clone-local.sh b/t/t5701-clone-local.sh index 7ff6e0e..bb5dddd 100755 --- a/t/t5701-clone-local.sh +++ b/t/t5701-clone-local.sh @@ -134,4 +134,19 @@ test_expect_success 'cloning a local path with --no-local does not hardlink' ' ! repo_is_hardlinked force-nonlocal ' +test_expect_success SANITY 'clone --no-hardlinks with unreadable .keep' ' + mkdir strictsrc && + ( + cd strictsrc && + git init && + git commit --allow-empty -m initial && + git repack -a -d && + packname=$(echo .git/objects/pack/pack-*.idx) && + keepname=${packname%.idx}.keep && + >"$keepname" && + chmod a= "$keepname" + ) && + git clone --local --no-hardlinks strictsrc dst +' + test_done -- 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