| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Mark Mielke <mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Managing multiple branches in git |
| Date: | 2009-06-03 16:22:39 |
| Message-ID: | 4A26A34F.5070503@anarazel.de |
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On 06/03/2009 06:17 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think the appropriate question is why doesn't it work on Windows,
>> and is that fixable? Without having looked, I'm guessing the issue
>> is that it depends on hardlinks or symlinks --- and we know those are
>> available, as long as you're using recent Windows with NTFS. Which
>> does not sound like an unreasonable baseline requirement for someone
>> committing from Windows.
> I think it could probably be made to work on WIndows if really necessary
> (e.g. by translating into perl).
Is the fact that its implemented as a shell script the real problem?
Isn't it more that "symlinks" aka Junction Points are really dangerous
<= WinXP? (Deleting a symlink recurses to the target and deletes there).
Andres
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