From 9564895f0de1750035c7ae32e7ec8604ab6bb430 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "https://me.yahoo.com/a/2grhJvAC049fJnvALDXek.6MRZMTlg--#eec89" Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 05:59:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added a comment --- ...omment_10_20429a1a7be9a6b0b22c02081586adbc._comment | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/bugs/Large_unannex_operations_result_in_stale_symlinks_and_data_loss/comment_10_20429a1a7be9a6b0b22c02081586adbc._comment diff --git a/doc/bugs/Large_unannex_operations_result_in_stale_symlinks_and_data_loss/comment_10_20429a1a7be9a6b0b22c02081586adbc._comment b/doc/bugs/Large_unannex_operations_result_in_stale_symlinks_and_data_loss/comment_10_20429a1a7be9a6b0b22c02081586adbc._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1b89002091 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/Large_unannex_operations_result_in_stale_symlinks_and_data_loss/comment_10_20429a1a7be9a6b0b22c02081586adbc._comment @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="https://me.yahoo.com/a/2grhJvAC049fJnvALDXek.6MRZMTlg--#eec89" + nickname="John" + subject="comment 10" + date="2013-08-30T05:59:39Z" + content=""" +I'll chime in and say that the non-fast behavior being the default seems wrong, and making hard-link invisibly seems wrong. What Joey proposed -- copying a file if there are multiple hard-links -- seems like the right solution. + +Just recently I tried to unannex a large repository and was bitten by now-dangling symlinks to files that I couldn't locate anymore. The fact is that the current unannex operation is too dangerous to be useful. +"""]]