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EGit and symbolic links [message #712847]

Sun, 07 August 2011 20:45

Christoph Pospiech

Messages: 11
Registered: January 2010

Junior Member

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 06:25

Robin Rosenberg

Messages: 332
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

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 11:06

Matthias Sohn

Messages: 1180
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

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 13:35

Christoph Pospiech

Messages: 11
Registered: January 2010

Junior Member

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 23:29

Matthias Sohn

Messages: 1180
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

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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