Dear diary, on Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 11:36:08AM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that... > When a repository is initialized long time ago with symbolic > HEAD, and "git-pack-refs --prune" is run, HEAD will be a > dangling symlink to refs/heads/ somewhere. > > Running -e "$dir/HEAD" to guess if $dir is a git repository does > not give us the right answer anymore in such a case. I think this is a wrong answer to this problem - I guess Cogito's going to be confused by HEAD a dangling symlink as well and I'll bet there's more places where this will give us trouble. Having HEAD a dangling symlink is just wrong and git-pack-refs --prune is buggy if it causes that. You should fix the problem at that side and make sure it either changes HEAD to a symref or doesn't pack the ref HEAD points at. Or just error out and leave the policy decision on the user. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) - 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 Sat Oct 07 01:42:01 2006
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