From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 21:16:15 GMT
Subject: Re: RFC: git cat-file --follow-symlinks?
Message-ID: <20150429211615.GR5467@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1430341032.14907.9.camel@ubuntu>

Hi,

David Turner wrote:

> Instead, it would be cool if cat-file had a mode in which it would
> follow symlinks.

Makes sense.

> The major wrinkle is that symlinks can point outside the repository --
> either because they are absolute paths, or because they are relative
> paths with enough ../ in them.  For this case, I propose that
> --follow-symlinks should output [sha] "symlink" [target] instead of the
> usual [sha] "blob" [bytes].

What happens when the symlink payload contains a newline?

Thanks,
Jonathan