Subject: Re: [RFC] Change handling of RelNotes

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:09:18 -0700

Nanako Shiraishi <[email-masked]> writes:

> I sometimes have a checkout on a filesystem that does not support
> symbolic links, but I set core.symlink configuration variable to false
> in such a case.  Would it make sense to update "git init" to autodetect
> lack of symbolic link support in the filesystem?

Hmph.  Something along this line, perhaps?

 builtin-init-db.c |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin-init-db.c b/builtin-init-db.c
index af15cb2..c411008 100644
--- a/builtin-init-db.c
+++ b/builtin-init-db.c
@@ -264,6 +264,22 @@ static int create_default_files(const char *git_dir, const char *template_path)
 		if (work_tree != git_work_tree_cfg)
 			git_config_set("core.worktree", work_tree);
 	}
+
+	/* Check if symlink is supported in the work tree */
+	if (!reinit) {
+		path[len] = 0;
+		strcpy(path + len, "tXXXXXX");
+		
+		if (!close(xmkstemp(path)) &&
+		    !unlink(path) &&
+		    !symlink("testing", path) &&
+		    !lstat(path, &st1) &&
+		    S_ISLNK(st1.st_mode))
+			; /* good */
+		else
+			git_config_set("core.symlinks", "false");
+	}
+
 	return reinit;
 }