symlinked directories in refs are now unreachable

The behaviour of the symlinked in ref directories has changed from earlier versions of git. They used to be taken into account in git-fsck-cache --unreachable. The code in question would simply stat the contents of .git/refs and recursively expand any S_ISDIR. Now the code does an lstat and effectively throws symlinks away.

refs.c lines 48,52 @ do_for_each_ref

...
	memcpy(path + baselen, de->d_name, namelen+1);
	if (lstat(git_path("%s", path), &st) < 0)
		continue;
	if (S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) {
		retval = do_for_each_ref(path, fn);
...

Can the previous behaviour be reinstated?