[PATCH 03/11] git p4: work around p4 bug that causes empty symlinks

2014-01-21 Thread Pete Wyckoff
Damien Gérard highlights an interesting problem. Some p4 repositories end up with symlinks that have an empty target. It is not possible to create this with current p4, but they do indeed exist. The effect in git p4 is that p4 print on the symlink returns an empty string, confusing the curret

Re: [PATCH 03/11] git p4: work around p4 bug that causes empty symlinks

2014-01-21 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Pete Wyckoff p...@padd.com wrote: Damien Gérard highlights an interesting problem. Some p4 repositories end up with symlinks that have an empty target. It is not possible to create this with current p4, but they do indeed exist. The effect in git p4 is that