On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 08:29:14PM -0700, David Turner wrote:
> > 4. Return the last object we could resolve, as I described. So
> [...]
>
> Actually, I think 4 has an insurmountable problem. Here's the case I'm
> thinking of:
>
> ln -s .. morx
>
> Imagine that we go to look up 'morx/fleem'
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:00:22PM -0700, David Turner wrote:
> > > Also, BUILD files are scattered throughout the tree, so the entire tree
> > > would still need to be traversed. At present, our monorepo is not quite
> > > large enough for this to matter (a full ls-tree only takes me 0.6s), but
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 11:44:50AM -0700, David Turner wrote:
> > git ls-tree HEAD -- BUILD ?
>
> This does not actually seem to work (even with -r); it only recurses
> into directories that are named BUILD, rather than being equivalent to
> git ls-tree -r HEAD |grep /BUILD$.
Ah, I thought that
On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 21:16 -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 06:06:23PM -0700, David Turner wrote:
> 3. Ditto for out-of-tree. Note that this would be the _raw_ symlink
> contents, not any kind of simplification (so if you asked for
> "foo/bar/baz" and it was "../../../
Jeff King writes:
> I had imagined we would stop resolution and you would just get the last
> object peeled object. Combined with teaching cat-file to show more
> object context, doing:
>
> echo content >dest ;# actual blob
> ln -s dest link;# link to blob
> ln -s broken foo ;# broken
On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 20:37 -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 07:11:50PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I agree if you let git punt on leaving the filesystem, most of the
> > complicated problems go away. It still feels a bit more magical than I
> > expect out of cat-file, and
Jeff King wrote:
> 1. Git has to make a decision about what to do in corner cases. What
> is our cwd for relative links? The project root?
I don't follow. Isn't symlink resolution always relative to the
symlink, regardless of cwd?
Thanks,
Jonathan
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On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 14:16 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> David Turner wrote:
>
> > Instead, it would be cool if cat-file had a mode in which it would
> > follow symlinks.
>
> Makes sense.
>
> > The major wrinkle is that symlinks can point outside the repository --
> > either because
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