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| author |  http://joey.kitenet.net/ <joey@web> | 2011-02-13 17:54:09 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2011-02-13 17:54:09 +0000 |
| commit | e2cf7389be5158b1016ef81d41d235b4e7cf7c2d (patch) | |
| tree | 4a2aeb7de756d94c8e7f90a411e1042afdadd403 /doc/bugs/Problems_running_make_on_osx | |
| parent | 02711df66e77c8eb1686e5d4d50c93da475daa7c (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/bugs/Problems_running_make_on_osx/comment_20_7db27d1a22666c831848bc6c06d66a84._comment b/doc/bugs/Problems_running_make_on_osx/comment_20_7db27d1a22666c831848bc6c06d66a84._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b617da926 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/Problems_running_make_on_osx/comment_20_7db27d1a22666c831848bc6c06d66a84._comment @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://joey.kitenet.net/" + nickname="joey" + subject="comment 20" + date="2011-02-13T17:54:09Z" + content=""" +Outside the test suite, git-annex's actual use of cp puts fairly low demands on it. It tries to use cp -a or cp -p if available just to preserve whatever attributes it can preserve, but the worst case if that you have a symlink pointing to a file that doesn't have the original timestamp or whatever. And there's little expectation git preserves that stuff anyway. + +I will probably try to make the test suite entirely use git clone rather than cp. +"""]] |