From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 22:58:49 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Use work tree to determine if it supports symlinks Message-ID: <7vsjccyfo6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <3068717.2K7be5iONg@mephista> Sascha Cunz 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.