From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:06:28 GMT
Subject: Re: possible regression (or me abusing git) in v1.5.5
Message-ID: <7vbq4grtij.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <905315640804111221k53dd7063sae5710ed690114f0@mail.gmail.com>

tarmigan+git@gmail.com writes:

> After upgrading to v1.5.5, I noticed a change in the way that git
> treats symbolic links.
>
> Git will follow symbolic links to directories when they were added as follows
>
> $ git init
> $ mkdir foo
> $ touch foo/bar
> $ ln -s foo foo1
> $ git add foo1/

In this step "git add" adds "foo1/bar", which is a bug that is shared
between 1.5.5 and previous versions.

Recent "git add -u" after that was taught to notice this bogosity (it
actually is git-diff-* family that was fixed), and fixes it.