From 78a8d641c14dc2f0a306d787fa1e42d400b3af4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Sixt Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 22:11:30 +0100 Subject: Add core.symlinks to mark filesystems that do not support symbolic links. Some file systems that can host git repositories and their working copies do not support symbolic links. But then if the repository contains a symbolic link, it is impossible to check out the working copy. This patch enables partial support of symbolic links so that it is possible to check out a working copy on such a file system. A new flag core.symlinks (which is true by default) can be set to false to indicate that the filesystem does not support symbolic links. In this case, symbolic links that exist in the trees are checked out as small plain files, and checking in modifications of these files preserve the symlink property in the database (as long as an entry exists in the index). Of course, this does not magically make symbolic links work on such defective file systems; hence, this solution does not help if the working copy relies on that an entry is a real symbolic link. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-update-index.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/git-update-index.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt index b161c8b32b..cd5e014d48 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt @@ -295,6 +295,11 @@ in the index and the file mode on the filesystem if they differ only on executable bit. On such an unfortunate filesystem, you may need to use `git-update-index --chmod=`. +Quite similarly, if `core.symlinks` configuration variable is set +to 'false' (see gitlink:git-config[1]), symbolic links are checked out +as plain files, and this command does not modify a recorded file mode +from symbolic link to regular file. + The command looks at `core.ignorestat` configuration variable. See 'Using "assume unchanged" bit' section above. -- cgit v1.2.3