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| author |  http://dieter-be.myopenid.com/ <dieter@web> | 2011-04-03 20:30:22 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2011-04-03 20:30:22 +0000 |
| commit | b73accb4831adab09d4059d05e68b40fac7fa482 (patch) | |
| tree | 984a3ece8bbf211b526ab29e558cc7e83a17aede /doc/todo/smudge/comment_2_e04b32caa0d2b4c577cdaf382a3ff7f6._comment | |
| parent | 218c58f3c9d08e981a4dbade8aa9c9acc0facaf1 (diff) | |
Added a comment: symlinks
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diff --git a/doc/todo/smudge/comment_2_e04b32caa0d2b4c577cdaf382a3ff7f6._comment b/doc/todo/smudge/comment_2_e04b32caa0d2b4c577cdaf382a3ff7f6._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3a223e1c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/smudge/comment_2_e04b32caa0d2b4c577cdaf382a3ff7f6._comment @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://dieter-be.myopenid.com/" + nickname="dieter" + subject="symlinks" + date="2011-04-03T20:30:21Z" + content=""" +> (Sadly, it cannot create a symlink, as git still wants to write the file afterwards. +> So the nice current behavior of unavailable files being clearly missing due to dangling symlinks, would be lost when using smudge/clean filters. (Contact git developers to get an interface to do this?) + +Have you checked what the smudge filter sees when the input is a symlink? Because git supports tracking symlinks, so it should also support pushing symlinks through a smudge filter, right? +Either way: yes, contact the git devs, one can only ask and hope. And if you can demonstrate the awesomeness of git-annex they might get more 1interested :) +"""]] |