From: Dmitry Potapov Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:19:20 GMT Subject: Re: ignoring files/directories in git Message-ID: <20080922121920.GL21650@dpotapov.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <48D77643.1090908@panasas.com> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 01:41:07PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > Ok I found it. Regular subdirectories it works as you said, > but soft-link to a folder does not. Why should it? Git does not follow symbolic links regardless whether they point to files or directories. In fact, Git does extra checks to avoid something like: symlink-to-dir/normal-file to be added as a normal file. There was some discussion about it a couple months ago ("Not going beyond symbolic links"). Dmitry