Adam Spiers

Ah, `/dev/null` is an interesting use case - thanks! Is that the history for the `mysql` CLI client? Why would that file exist within your Stow package directory? Yes `Stow.pm.in`...

> Exactly, .mysql_history keeps the history of the MySQL CLI client. I do have a few of these symlinks to /dev/null. Why more than one? Multiple versions of the client...

On 13 June 2016 at 11:20, Dany Marcoux [email protected] wrote: > I only have one .mysql_history symlink to /dev/null. So what is the advantage of putting this symlink within the...

Ohhh, OK - now I get it! Thanks :-) This is one of the ways I use Stow too, so I entirely understand. To clarify, are you saying that stowing...

Thanks, that info helps a lot. I agree this should work (although the target should link back to the source which then links to `/dev/null`, rather than the target linking...

OK I've read through this issue more carefully now, and @cuonglm is right that we're confusing two totally separate issues: [**@cuonglm**](https://github.com/cuonglm) commented on [June 13, 2016 9:29 AM](https://github.com/aspiers/stow/issues/11#issuecomment-225518362 "2016-06-13T08:29:00Z -...

@nbeaver Many thanks for the extra info. I don't have time to process this right now, but I'll try to get to it soon.

[**@carlosnewmusic**](https://github.com/carlosnewmusic) commented on [July 1, 2019 10:11 AM](https://github.com/aspiers/stow/issues/11#issuecomment-507183598 "2019-07-01T09:11:38Z - Replied by Github Reply Comments"): > > @carlosnewmusic Sorry I don't understand. Is this definitely related to the original report...

Sounds like a valid bug; thanks for the report!

Unfortunately `git shortlog -s -e -- doc` doesn't gives us a useful list of people to obtain permission from, because the git history doesn't go back far enough :-(