From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Obscure error/warning/information message from git pull Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 23:28:01 +0200 Message-ID: <83egt5h3q6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20141114120604.GA3859@acm.acm> <87a93topxv.fsf@igel.home> <83h9y1j18p.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3x590k0.fsf@maru2.md5i.com> <83tx21hf2f.fsf@gnu.org> <87lhndn10n.fsf@igel.home> <83sihlh6ei.fsf@gnu.org> <87vbmhlc57.fsf@igel.home> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416000525 11842 80.91.229.3 (14 Nov 2014 21:28:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 21:28:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mwd@md5i.com, acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 14 22:28:37 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XpOPz-0003pm-Mb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 22:28:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37936 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpOPz-0006DG-71 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:28:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48301) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpOPs-0006DB-Lf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:28:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpOPm-0006Py-Uc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:28:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:60138) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpOPm-0006Pr-Np for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:28:22 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NF100N00S6JL400@mtaout25.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 23:23:59 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NF100NQSSRVE810@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 23:23:58 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87vbmhlc57.fsf@igel.home> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:177125 Archived-At: > From: Andreas Schwab > Cc: mwd@md5i.com, acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 22:12:36 +0100 > > >> > I wasn't asking about Windows. It is clear to me by reading the > >> > script that using that on Windows is a bad idea, because symlinks are > >> > (a) only supported since Vista, and (b) require to run the script "As > >> > Administrator". (And then there's a known caveat of removing the > >> > symlinked directory that actually removes the target, if you aren't > >> > careful to use rmdir.) > >> > >> This is another point being worked on. > > > > You mean, avoid using symlinks? Or prevent accidental removal of the > > original meta-data? > > The first, which implies the latter IIUC. It does. Thanks.