RE: Symbolic links create dirty state from git.

From: Timothy Schaeffer <tschaeffer@dramail.com>
Date: Mar 25, 2008, 15:15 UTC
Message-ID: <138905EB75AB0D44B6A0ECD251A92EA79C2E10@sdra00198.intranet.dra-inc.net>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org 
> [mailto:git-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Timothy Schaeffer
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 5:28 PM
> To: git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Symbolic links create dirty state from git.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I cloned a repo from another with symbolic links.  Now the 
> symbolic links 
> appear as modified files, and nor resetting, nor committing, 
> nor ignoring, 
> nor `rm --cache`ing will take them out of their dirty state.  
> ...

This turns out to be a known bug with my version of encfs:

1.4.1 (Jan 12, 2008) Change Log 
Bug fixes:
    * return unencrypted link size on fstat of a symbolic link, 
      otherwise git fails when working with symbolic links.

So, thanks for nu'in. :-)

Tim S