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* Distinguish between .stow and (undocumented) .nonstow
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** .stow is for marking stow directories - avoids altering them
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but also allows --override to work
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** .nonstow should be only for protecting non-stow directories against modification by stow
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but currently allows modification via --override.
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** Documentation needs to be clear on this.
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* Prevent folding of directories which contain ignored files
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* Honour .no-stow-folding and --no-folding
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* Add semi-automatic conflict resolution
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*** STOW_RESOLVE_CONFLICTS="non_stow_symlinks=t stow_symlinks=r"
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*** Add documentation about conflict resolution
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* get account on fencepost.gnu.org (email accounts@gnu.org)
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set up copyright papers?
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'assign.future' and 'request-assign.future.manual'
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* Figure out what needs the files '.nonstow' and '.notstowed'. Can they be removed?
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* Update http://directory.fsf.org/project/stow/
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* Update savannah CVS
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* Check that all email addresses are working: need an account on fenchpost for
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this bug-stow@gnu.org, help-stow@gnu.org
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* Get some pre-testers: need to find appropriate mailing list?
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* Announce release on info-gnu@gnu.org.
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* Autodetect "foreign" stow directories
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From e-mail with meyering@na-net.ornl.gov:
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> My /usr/local/info equivalent is a symlink to /share/info
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> because I want installs on all systems to put info files in that
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> directory. With that set-up, stow chokes on fact that
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> /usr/local/info is a symlink.
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[...] Stow is designed to be paranoid about modifying anything it
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doesn't "own." If it finds a symlink in the target tree (e.g.,
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/usr/local/info) which doesn't point into the stow tree, its
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paranoid response is to leave it the hell alone. But I can see in
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this case how traversing the link and populating the directory on
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the far end would be OK. Question: is that a special
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circumstance, or would it always be OK to populate the far end of
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a symlink in the target tree (when the symlink points to a
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directory in a context where a directory is needed)? And: if it's
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a special circumstance requiring a command-line option, should the
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option be a mere boolean (such as, "--traverse-target-links") or
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should it be an enumeration of which links are OK to traverse
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(such as, "--traversable='info man doc'")?
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Does Version 2 fix this? (Kal)
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I think that because it never needs to create /usr/local/info,
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it only needs to check the ownership of links that it _operates_ on,
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not on all the elements of the path.
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* emacs local variables
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Local Variables:
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mode: org
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End:
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