Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:

I think we should not have symlinks in Git. I does strange things with them. In particular on a system without symlinks, but also in my checkout now:

$ git checkout mdb $ cd servers/slapd/back-mdb/ $ ls -l mdb.c libmdb/mdb.c ls: cannot access libmdb/mdb.c: No such file or directory lrwxrwxrwx 1 hbf usit 12 2011-08-17 13:26 mdb.c -> libmdb/mdb.c $ gitk --all ...but this does show the mdb source.

I suggest:

• treat the 'mdb' branch as a throw-away branch, instead of merging it into master,

Absolutely, this is just a work-in-progress branch. I only pushed thus far to make sure there was a backup somewhere besides my workstation.

At some point need to decide whether libmdb will really be a standalone library that needs to be detected by configure, or if it will just be bundled under our libraries subtree.

• let Makefile make the symlinks, as in libraries/liblunicode,

Fine.

• make some Git hook which rejects commits with symlinks.

If you wish, go ahead.