RE: Symbolic link documentation

From: Matt Seitz (matseitz) <matseitz@cisco.com>
Date: Sep 20, 2007, 17:52 UTC
Message-ID: <70952A932255A2489522275A628B97C3052E993B@xmb-sjc-233.amer.cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070920172736.GU3099@spearce.org>

From: spearce@spearce.org [mailto:spearce@spearce.org]

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> > Documentation/git-update-index.txt:to 'false' (see 
> > gitlink:git-config[1]), symbolic links are checked out 
> Documentation/git-update-index.txt:from symbolic link to regular file.
> > Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt:files vs symbolic links) and 
> > executable bits (only for regular
> 
> These are probably what Matt was looking for.

The git-update-index and git-update-ref manual references are the closest to what I was looking for. Both are more low-level and technical than what I was hoping for, and the discussion in git-update-index seems targeted primarily at how symlinks are translated on file systems that don't support symlinks.

I guess I was looking for something like the GNU "tar" documentation of how symlinks are handled (http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/dereference.html#deref erence).

-- Matt Seitz Manager, File System Virtualization Cisco Systems, Inc. .:|:.:|:.

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