Re: git and symlinks as tracked content

AG> Whether you use an explicit "dev" type or an implicit "dev" AG> type that calls itself "blob" and uses a magic mode flag to AG> tell checkout that it needs special treatment doesn't make a AG> difference.

True. The use of word "wrong" in my message was _wrong_. But my gut feeling is that the code that has to deal with the dev and symlink stuff would be simpler if we just stick to the blob type.

AG> When was the last time you tried to version control /dev? ;)

Tried? Never. Wished? Number of times. It's just that there is no such SCM that does this natively, so I keep "ls -l /dev" output under CVS control as a rough approximation.