On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jens Lindström writes:
>
>> Not always. The Linux kernel can at least be configured not to allow
>> it. It seems this is enabled by default in at least Debian.
>
> You learn a new thing every day, I guess. I am on Debian, I do not
> think
Jens Lindström writes:
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> I am not sure if we should care that deeply about them in the first
>> place.
>
> Fine by me; I don't really have a strong opinion on the matter.
>
>> Besides, I think you can make a hardlink to a file that you can
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I am not sure if we should care that deeply about them in the first
> place.
Fine by me; I don't really have a strong opinion on the matter.
> Besides, I think you can make a hardlink to a file that you cannot
> read.
Not always. The Linu
Jens Lindström writes:
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>>> The pack-*.keep files are temporary, and serve no purpose in the
>>> clone.
>>
>> They are not temporary, actually. A user can deliberatey create a
>> "keep" marker after packing with a good set of parameters,
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> The pack-*.keep files are temporary, and serve no purpose in the
>> clone.
>
> They are not temporary, actually. A user can deliberatey create a
> "keep" marker after packing with a good set of parameters, so that
> the resulting pack will
Junio C Hamano writes:
> I am perfectly fine with a change that allows a local clone to skip
> and not error out when such a "keep" marker cannot be copied, I do
> not know if it is a good idea to unconditionally skip and not even
> attempt to copy it.
That is, something like this, perhaps?
We
Jens Lindstrom writes:
Hmph. I am of two minds here.
> The pack-*.keep files are temporary, and serve no purpose in the
> clone.
They are not temporary, actually. A user can deliberatey create a
"keep" marker after packing with a good set of parameters, so that
the resulting pack will be kept
The pack-*.keep files are temporary, and serve no purpose in the
clone. They would probably also never be deleted from the clone if
copied, since the process that created them only expects to have to
delete them from the original repository.
Worse, though, they are created with access bits 0600,
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