On 11/11/05, Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@hogyros.de> wrote: > > I personally would not mind getting rid of symlinks completely, but we > > will still have to support them for some reasonable time period (several > > major releases, as far as Cogito is concerned - actually, there is > > plenty of people still using 0.13 and such). > > As someone who carries around git repositories on VFAT formatted USB > sticks, I welcome our symlink-deprived overlords. > But you shouldn't care if you have reasonably recent git everywhere: symlinks and their absence already handled: .git/config created by init-db contains the configuration parameter for filemode, which decides whether it is safe to use the symlinks on the underlying filesystem. It looks more like a rhetorical question of code cleanup, because in-file symlinks already handle all possible cases. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Fri Nov 11 23:43:52 2005
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