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HBHans Kristian Otnes Berge <hansbe@ifi.uio.no>
Date
Feb 3, 2015, 09:12 UTC
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Hi
First of all thanks for a great piece of software!!

I have a tiny complaint though, about git not allowing symlinked files (in an easy way).

I would use this to keep track of the contents of a file that is also being developed and shared across other projects, but later changes to it could break a few things in each project. Although I understand it makes for some complications, and it fails to meet basic KISS principles, it would be great to be able to override the default behavior for instance via the config or add command or something in the info directory. I suppose there are lots of work-arounds to this (just a bit more hassle), so no worries if you don't like it.

Thanks!
Hans Kristian
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  1. Hans Kristian Otnes BergeFeb 3, 2015

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