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Re: symbolic link management in git-archive

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Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date
Mar 27, 2008, 11:40 UTC
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<20080327114024.GR14567@genesis.frugalware.org>
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On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:29:28AM +0000, Sergio Callegari <sergio.callegari@gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess the answer is "no" or "not yet", but is there a way to tell the zip
> backend of git-archive to follow symbolic links rather than to store them?

how would that handle a '. -> foo' symlink? following such a recursion would lead to an infinite loop, i guess.

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