From b73accb4831adab09d4059d05e68b40fac7fa482 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "http://dieter-be.myopenid.com/" Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 20:30:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added a comment: symlinks --- ...mment_2_e04b32caa0d2b4c577cdaf382a3ff7f6._comment | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/todo/smudge/comment_2_e04b32caa0d2b4c577cdaf382a3ff7f6._comment diff --git a/doc/todo/smudge/comment_2_e04b32caa0d2b4c577cdaf382a3ff7f6._comment b/doc/todo/smudge/comment_2_e04b32caa0d2b4c577cdaf382a3ff7f6._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3a223e1c7b --- /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 :) +"""]]