From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:03:39 GMT
Subject: Re: untracked symlinks are less precious than untracked files?
Message-ID: <7v7hdixkys.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <201102022025.06140.j6t@kdbg.org>

Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:

> Is it by design that symlinks are less precious than files, or is it an 
> oversight?

I don't recall making conscious distinction between symmlinks and regular
files, so it is likely to be just a bug. Perhaps using stat() where
lstat() should be used and mistaking an error return as missing, or
something silly like that?