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Re: git support for symbolic link?

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
May 24, 2010, 19:29 UTC
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<20100524192947.GI16470@spearce.org>
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Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm wondering if git support symbolic links.

Yes. Git stores the path the symlink points to, and restores the symlink to have the same target path when the "file" is checked out on another system.

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Shawn.
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