Re: symbolic links, unreadable files, skip

Hi,
I don't think such option is useful. Because something obtained
with that is an incomplete one. To get an appropriate permission
bears a better result, I think.
By the way, gtags ignores orphaned symbolic links.

If you would like to skip unreadable files, you can use cp(1)
like follows:

$ cp -r tangled readable
... some warning messages ...
$ cd readable
$ gtags

Regards
Shigio


2015-08-26 19:26 GMT+09:00 Marcus Harnisch <[email protected]>:

>
>    - What is your environment (OS)?
>
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 6.6 (Santiago)
>
>    - Which version of GLOBAL are you using?
>
> gtags (GNU GLOBAL) 6.5
>
>    - What did you do? (command line)
>
> gtags --gtagslabel myconfig --explain >& gtags.log
>
>    - What was occurred? (as is)
>
> In a rather huge and tangled directory tree, for which I have not the
> permissions necessary to clean up, gtags fails when encountering files
> which are unreadable according to my user permissions. Some of these are
> non-existent (or otherwise unreadable) link targets.
> Including the link target in skip doesn't have any effect.
>
>    - What did you expect from it?
>
>
>    1. There should be an option for skipping files that can't be read.
>    2. It should be possible to apply skip rules to both, the link itself
>    and the link target. Example: There could be many individual links
>    (difficult to capture in skip), all pointing to somewhere inside an
>    unreadable directory tree.
>
> Best regards
> Marcus
>
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