Re: On pathnames

Hi,

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Daniel Barkalow [off-list ref] writes:

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$ git checkout branch
Warning: xt_CONNMARK.c conflicts with xt_connmark.c; not checking it out
$ git checkout xt_CONNMARK.c --as xt_CONNMARK_caps.c
$ edit xt_CONNMARK_caps.c
$ git add xt_CONNMARK_caps.c

Heh, I like that very much.

It would make it easier to test on Linux, too, yes.

But then, it would break the build process all the same.

Sure, but it would permit a user of a filesystem that can't handle the 
project to make modifications that generate a commit the filesystem can 
handle, which is currently pretty difficult.

$ git checkout xt_CONNMARK.c --as xt_CONNMARK_tmp.c
$ mv xt_CONNMARK_tmp.c xt_connmark_flag.c
$ edit Makefile
$ git add xt_connmark_flag.c
$ git commit -a

AFAICT it is possible right now:

$ git checkout xt_CONNMARK.c
$ git mv xt_CONNMARK.c xt_connmark_flag.c
$ git checkout xt_connmark.c
$ edit Makefile
$ git add Makefile
$ git commit

Ciao,
Dscho