git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: Symbolic link documentation

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Sep 20, 2007, 19:16 UTC
Message-ID
<20070920191651.GW3099@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To
<70952A932255A2489522275A628B97C3052E99F9@xmb-sjc-233.amer.cisco.com>
"Matt Seitz (matseitz)" <matseitz@cisco.com> wrote:
Show 7 quoted lines
> From: spearce@spearce.org [mailto:spearce@spearce.org] 
> > 
> > So Git handles symlinks in the working tree *without* 
> > dereferencing them.  
> 
> Thanks.  Is there a recommended procedure for tracking changes when the
> symlink target is outside the working tree?
Move the link target so its inside the working tree?

Git won't step outside of the working tree to look for or to record changes. Its outside. We don't track things outside of the part of the world you've asked us to track.

-- 
Shawn.
Previous: Matt Seitz (matseitz)Next: Johannes Schindelin
Message 7 of 10 in “Symbolic link documentation”
  1. Matt Seitz (matseitz)Sep 20, 2007
  2. Johannes SchindelinSep 20, 2007
  3. Shawn O. PearceSep 20, 2007
  4. Matt Seitz (matseitz)Sep 20, 2007
  5. Shawn O. PearceSep 20, 2007
  6. Matt Seitz (matseitz)Sep 20, 2007
  7. Shawn O. PearceSep 20, 2007
  8. Johannes SchindelinSep 20, 2007
  9. Matt SeitzSep 20, 2007
  10. Shawn O. PearceSep 20, 2007

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.