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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-08-04 16:08:19 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-08-04 16:08:19 -0400 |
| commit | a16438a99ba92677dd4527c0add39fbc2a806a3e (patch) | |
| tree | 45468a2b01b8218cdac7eec68e9f13d5e72de8ca /doc | |
| parent | eeab166e1bed5f654acc75d55fa62394a16cbd2d (diff) | |
Linux standalone: Work around problem that prevented it from working properly if unpacked into a directory that contains ":" or ";" in its name.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/linux_standalone_git_annex_won__39__t_work_in_a_directory_whose_path_contains_:_or___59__.mdwn | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bugs/linux_standalone_git_annex_won__39__t_work_in_a_directory_whose_path_contains_:_or___59__.mdwn b/doc/bugs/linux_standalone_git_annex_won__39__t_work_in_a_directory_whose_path_contains_:_or___59__.mdwn index 52fcf6eb7..934416df6 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/linux_standalone_git_annex_won__39__t_work_in_a_directory_whose_path_contains_:_or___59__.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/linux_standalone_git_annex_won__39__t_work_in_a_directory_whose_path_contains_:_or___59__.mdwn @@ -39,3 +39,10 @@ git-annex: get: 1 failed # End of transcript or log. """]] + +> Actually, this bug is fixable. And I have! I made it detect the problem +> path, and then fall back to making a directory in /tmp, symlinking the +> git-annex.linux directory into it, and using that as its base directory. +> +> Of course, that's a suboptimal configuration, but better than having some +> configurations where it doesn't work. --[[Joey]] |