Many tests depend on that symbolic links work. This introduces a check
that sets the prerequisite tag SYMLINKS if the file system supports
symbolic links. Since so many tests have to check for this prerequisite,
we do the check in test-lib.sh, so that we don't need to repeat the test
in many scripts.
To check for 'ln -s' failures, you can use a FAT partition on Linux:
$ mkdosfs -C git-on-fat 1000000
$ sudo mount -o loop,uid=j6t,gid=users,shortname=winnt git-on-fat /mnt
Clone git to /mnt and
$ GIT_SKIP_TESTS='t0001.1[34] t0010 t1301 t403[34] t4129.[47] t5701.7
t7701.3 t9100 t9101.26 t9119 t9124.[67] t9200.10 t9600.6' \
make test
(These additionally skipped tests depend on POSIX permissions that FAT on
Linux does not provide.)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Even though this will break things for some extremely rare repositories
used by broken Windows clients, it's probably not worth enabling this by
default as it has negatively affected many more users than it has helped
from what we've seen so far.
The extremely rare repositories that have broken symlinks in them will be
silently corrupted in import; but users can still reenable this option and
restart the import.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since dbc6c74d08, git-svn has had
an expensive check for broken symlinks that exist in some
repositories. This leads to a heavy performance hit on
repositories with many empty blobs that are not supposed to be
symlinks.
The workaround is enabled by default; and may be disabled via:
git config svn.brokenSymlinkWorkaround false
Reported by Markus Heidelberg.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Broken SVN clients generate empty files with the svn:special set
to '*'. This attempts to denote a symlink pointing to a file
with an empty path (""), which cannot be generated on a POSIX
system.
Thus, we mimic the behavior of svn(1) and create a zero-byte
file in our tree.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
