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git and symlinks as tracked content

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KSKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date
May 3, 2005, 18:33 UTC
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Is there a sane model to make git aware of tracking symlinks in the repository? In the bk udev tree we've had a test sysfs-tree with a lot of symlinks in it.

Where can we store the link-target? In its own blob-object or directly in the tree-object?

How would a exported "patch" with symlinks as content look like?

Thanks, Kay

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