On Thursday 01 March 2007 12:56, Robin Rosenberg wrote: > torsdag 01 mars 2007 02:18 skrev Johannes Schindelin: > > So, all I would like to do on top of Johannes' patch is to add a _big_ > > _fat_ warning whenever Git realizes it has to substitute a file for a > > link, but I DON'T WANT THE BLOODY FILE TO BE COPIED. > > I do want it to fail early initially (checkout), no default workaround, > until I SAY I want copies (or text links, this is apparently a preference. > By default git should complain loudly that it cannot create links. Oh, git will fail early: symlink(2) will complain. > - What do you want to do today? > a) Screw me with copies > b) Screw me with text links > c) Screw me with shortcuts (cygwin does this which is fine as long as I > stay within cygwin, so it is ok as a default behaviour there, but not > otherwise) The patch implements behavior b), and it will need to be turned on in a conscious act, or it won't "screw you". -- Hannes - 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