[BUG?]: unpack-file behavior for blobs corresponding to symlinks

Hi,

unpack-file doesn't create symlinks as I'd expect. I'm not sure if this is a bug in unpack-file, or in my expectations.

To reproduce:

$ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /home/newren/testing/.git/ $ echo bla > bar $ ln -s bar foo $ git add bar foo $ git ls-files -s foo 120000 ba0e162e1c47469e3fe4b393a8bf8c569f302116 0 foo $ git unpack-file ba0e162e1c47469e3fe4b393a8bf8c569f302116 .merge_file_J1hTaV $ ls -l foo .merge_file_J1hTaV lrwxrwxrwx 1 enewren enewren 3 Sep 19 08:22 foo -> bar -rw------- 1 enewren enewren 3 Sep 19 08:23 .merge_file_J1hTaV $ echo $(cat .merge_file_J1hTaV) bar

Why is .merge_file_J1hTaV a regular file instead of a symlink? Is there an alternative command I can use that would create a symlink to bar given the information I have from the git ls-files command (and which also works for creating normal files and other special file types)?

Thanks, Elijah