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Re: [RFC/PATCH] Use work tree to determine if it supports symlinks

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 27, 2012, 22:58 UTC
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Sascha Cunz <Sascha@babbelbox.org> writes:
> Ok, so repository and working directory are simply not meant to be on 
> different file systems. Thanks for the clarification.

I did not mean "and that is a rule we need to enforce and keep forever". I was just answering your (implied) question "why does code comment, behaviour and documentation disagree?", to give a data point that would be useful when discussing what the ideal behaviour should be.

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