Re: Having Git follow symlinks

[Matthew Ruffalo]

On 01/31/2014 04:56 AM, Peter Krefting wrote:
 Matthieu Moy:

 One option is to have the symlink in the other direction: make
 /etc/foo a symlink to $GIT_WORKTREE/foo and version the later.

 I do that for the software that supports it, but ssh, for instance, is
 very picky that ~/.ssh is a directory and such. And at least one of
 the other files I version-control will be unlinked and overwritten in
 such a way that that does not work.

 I could split the repo up (that seems to be what vcsh is doing) and
 check the parts out in the corresponding directories, but I do like
 the idea of having one single repo.


 Oh, well, if I have the time, maybe I can come up with a patch. There
 is already some hacks in the core.symlinks setting, so I guess it
 should be possible.

This is now unrelated to Git, but I have .ssh symlinked to a
version-controlled directory on all of my machines (Kubuntu 13.10,
14.04, and recent Gentoo systems, but I've also done this on CentOS 5
and 6).

SSH doesn't care whether ~/.ssh is a symlink, but it *does* //care about
permissions:


mruffalo@giygas:~$ ls -ld .ssh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mruffalo mruffalo 13 Mar 17  2013 .ssh - .home-git/ssh
mruffalo@giygas:~$ ls -ld .home-git
drwx-- 1 mruffalo mruffalo 116 Dec  8 01:26 .home-git


If .home-git is mode 0755, SSH may refuse to use any private keys that
it finds, though I was unable to reproduce this with a few quick tests.

MMR...
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Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/

[Matthew Ruffalo]

Jonathan Nieder wrote:

Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:


I think he way forward on Windows is

Why is there only one way forward?  Why do you get to pick it, given
that you've said you're not interested in working on it?

[...]

  I never understood why
users on Windows want to use something as POSIX'y as git.git.

Plenty of users on Windows use a command line.  I have even been such
a user from time to time.  I'm quite grateful for Dscho et al's work
on making that less painful.

Jonathan
I agree completely. It's rare that I use Windows now, but a few years 
ago I installed Cygwin on any machine that I would use in any serious 
capacity. I haven't needed to do this since I started to use Git; the 
Windows installer ships all of the POSIX utilities that I need (with the 
possible exception of 'tree', and the caveat that scp can't handle files 
= 2GB).


I'm very appreciative of the work that's gone in to Git for Windows, and 
from my perspective it's a pleasant coincidence that it includes a POSIX 
shell and associated tools.


MMR...
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