C For C's Sake

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@dbuenzli Ah, I didn't know about `omod` and am not tied to `topfind` by any means; I'd be happy to use `omod` instead. Is this how you would use it?...

What would the purpose be?

Sorry, yes I ended up using curl to work around it. The backend was a HTTP/1.0 CGI service that would dump errors to stdout before writing the newlines, so it...

Yes, well, headers aren't supposed to have spaces, so one way to semi-reliably detect this kind of behavior would be to attempt splitting by `:`, and checking for spaces in...

+1. If you scroll to the bottom there's a guide on how to transfer a project. (if @jborg would like to do so) http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/GitHub-Maintaining-a-Project

This sounds like a nice warning. Perhaps a `--follow-symlinks` would also be nice?

Remember to ignore the warning condition if the target of the symlink is indeed included in the backup set. - You should pay attention to how `exclude` patterns may differ...

@alphapapa I think warnings for symlinks that point *out of the backed-up data* is a very good idea. Perhaps also warnings for non-relative symlinks since that may cause problems when...

Slightly off-topic, but question for @fd0 related to Windows links -- how do we handle "directory junctions"? (Had to look up `mklink`, found this article: http://windows7themes.net/en-us/windows-7-mklink-command-use-to-create-symbolic-links/ )

@martinml: Good catch. Backing up a shared drive doesn't seem like an unreasonable use case. I'm trying to wrap my head around potential problems storing it as a symlink (downgrading...