Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] apply: reject input that touches outside $cwd

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > Right, I do not think these tests will _fail_ when the filesystem does
> > not support symlinks. But nor are they actually testing anything
> > interesting. They would pass on such a system even without your patch,
> > as we would fail to apply even the symlink creation part of the patch.
> 
> I thought we write out the contents of the symbolic link as a
> regular file on such a filesystem, and as long as we do not expect
> "test -h expected-to-be-symlink-we-just-created" to succeed we would
> be fine.