On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Matt Welland <mattrwell...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Matt Welland <mattrwell...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> BTW, to some extent it is ok for fossil to be opinionated software that >>> strives to dictate how to do your work. However take that model very far >>> and you quickly alienate people. Given that perspective, why would fossil >>> care if someone chooses to commit a symlink that points outside their repo? >>> Give that user some credit, presumably he or she has a good reason for >>> doing what they are doing. >>> >> >> My problem is not the decision itself, but that, in terms of how fossil >> should behave, it's a philosophical question. Those have no right/wrong >> answer, and i dislike seeing software pretend to know the answer to such >> questions. >> > > Isn't that essentially confirming my point? Fossil merely stores the > pointer. It need not waste time analysing the link to make a judgement call > in any way. Just store it and move on. > But if it only stores a pointer, and requires the user to reconstruct the link, it's not terribly useful/friendly. The user would potentially have to replace fossil's placeholder pseudosymlink file with a link of his own (which he could point somewhere else than fossil thinks it "should" be). He might has well simply have a "post-checkout" script which sets up his symlinks for him. To me, that's the "proper"/"safest" way to handle symlinks in a repo (but i'm willing to accept being in the minority on that point). The default behaviour I'd like to see is: > > fast: > one readlink call, done! > > non-judgemental: > the link can point wherever you want, fossil need not even check > > simple: > store linkname as filename, result from readlink as file content, and > a flag, i.e. symlink > i'm not even sure what the default behaviour is, to be honest - i avoid symlinks like the plague in all SCMs. When symlinks are disabled in fossil, they are (to the best of my knowledge) stored as small files holding the resolved name of the link (the "simple" option you list here). -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
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