From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:31:23 GMT Subject: Re: symbolic link management in git-archive Message-ID: <7v3aqcb02s.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Sergio Callegari writes: > I guess the answer is "no" or "not yet", but is there a way to tell the zip > backend of git-archive to follow symbolic links rather than to store them? I am not sure what you mean. Are you tracking a symbolic link X that points at Y in your revision and expecting git-archive to include whatever happens to be at Y (which may or may not even exist) when you run the command? If that is the case, the answer is "no" and "will never happen". If you are tracking a symbolic link X that points at Y, the information git tracks is the fact that there is a symbolic link X that points at Y, and not what Y happens to look like at a random moment. Change to Y is not tracked by git so why should you get different output from git-archive of the same revision before and after you modify Y which is not part of the revision to begin with? If that is not what you are asking, please restate the question.