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Re: [egit-dev] Egit and symlinks

Hi Thomas,

See the following comment by Robin Rosenberg:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=354367#c24

The new tests should be pushed as new changes on top of the last
change in the series, which would be this one:

https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/15395/

Regards,
  Nibor


> I'm offering to help out here but I'd appreciate some input.
> 
> - thomas
> 
> On 2013-09-06 07:41, Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Resolving this is somewhat important to us and I wonder where my
> efforts helping out would be best spent. I see 6 changes after
> removing 'is:watched' but it doesn't say much about which ones are
> being worked at.
> 
> I saw a note that says " We did this for the Eclipse Platform in the
> ContainerTreeIterator". Is that change also needed for this to work?
> If so, with what version of the platform was that/will that be
> released?
> 
> Is there anything I can do to help getting this boat to shore? If so,
> how do I go about it so I resolve the most pressing issues first and
> don't engage in work that others are already doing?
> 
> - thomas
> 
> On 2013-09-06 00:43, Matthias Sohn wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Thomas Hallgren < thomas@xxxxxxx >
> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> What's the current state of Egit with respect to symlinks on
> MacOSX/Linux? Are there any issues left to resolve when running Java
> 7 or is it supposed to work OK in every respect when the "optional
> Java 7 libraries" jgit feature is installed?
> 
> in master so far only basic access to Java 7 symlink support is
> available
> in class org.eclipse.jgit.util.FileUtil .
> 
> Besides that there are a number of open changes to support symlinks:
> https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/q/is:watched+status:open+message:symlink,n,z
> 
> In addition we need a good number of additional tests to ensure that
> everything works
> 
> --
> Matthias
> 
> 
> 
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