From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:43:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Getting rid of symlinks in .git?
Message-ID: <81b0412b0511110443x48415032k8ca40d999071e8a9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <43746118.30404@hogyros.de>

On 11/11/05, Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@hogyros.de> wrote:
> > I personally would not mind getting rid of symlinks completely, but we
> > will still have to support them for some reasonable time period (several
> > major releases, as far as Cogito is concerned - actually, there is
> > plenty of people still using 0.13 and such).
>
> As someone who carries around git repositories on VFAT formatted USB
> sticks, I welcome our symlink-deprived overlords.
>

But you shouldn't care if you have reasonably recent git everywhere:
symlinks and their absence already handled: .git/config created by
init-db contains the configuration parameter for filemode, which
decides whether it is safe to use the symlinks on the underlying
filesystem.
It looks more like a rhetorical question of code cleanup, because
in-file symlinks already handle all possible cases.