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EGit and symbolic links [message #712847] Sun, 07 August 2011 16:45 Go to next message
Christoph.Pospiech is currently offline Christoph.Pospiech
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Hi,

I am using EGit nightly build (and upgraded yesterday). Apparently, when I import a project via EGit, symbolic links are turned into flat files.

Is this a known phenomenon ?

Christoph Pospiech

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Re: EGit and symbolic links [message #713152 is a reply to message #712847] Mon, 08 August 2011 02:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Robin Rosenberg is currently offline Robin Rosenberg
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Christoph.Pospiech skrev 2011-08-07 22.45:
> Hi,
>
> I am using EGit nightly build (and upgraded yesterday). Apparently, when
> I import a project via EGit, symbolic links are turned into flat files.
>
> Is this a known phenomenon ?

Yes, we know about it. Until recently Java had no way to deal with
symbolic links, but still we need to work with Java5, which does not
have Java7 support.

It would be possible to implement something that is enabled only when
Java 7 is installed.

-- robin

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Re: EGit and symbolic links [message #713330 is a reply to message #712847] Mon, 08 August 2011 07:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Matthias Sohn is currently offline Matthias Sohn
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see the following bugs:

JGit:
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=318598

EGit:
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=334137
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=351976

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Re: EGit and symbolic links [message #713446 is a reply to message #713330] Mon, 08 August 2011 09:35 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Christoph.Pospiech is currently offline Christoph.Pospiech
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Thanks for the explanations (Java5 vs. Java7 functionality).

It looks like the above two bugs are dealing with the same problem.

I understand that there will be no solution until eclipse is using java7.
Is this correct ? Any coarse estimate when that will be ?

Christoph Pospiech

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Re: EGit and symbolic links [message #716979 is a reply to message #713446] Thu, 18 August 2011 19:29 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Matthias Sohn is currently offline Matthias Sohn
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I am planning to look into using Java 7 to improve jgit this fall, but I will start with the NIO2 features first which can help to improve performance as this affects more projects :~)

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Re: EGit and symbolic links [message #956573 is a reply to message #712847] Wed, 24 October 2012 12:19 Go to previous message
Pascal Maurel is currently offline Pascal Maurel
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Hi,
Do you have any idea when a new version of egit (based on Java 7) dealing with symbolic links will be available ?
Thanks,
Pascal

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