Re: Git doesn't support symlinks

From: Bryan Turner <bturner@atlassian.com>
Date: Mar 26, 2020, 00:23 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGyf7-FF0aEEiRGjZ_+RuyYnSV5cYn+-Hp5q7dZRADj_VL034g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA8EDABA-A41C-4177-A149-51DCD07C319C@googlemail.com>

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 4:38 PM Daniel Malendez <dmalendez@googlemail.com> wrote:

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> Hi everyone,
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> I use `Ubuntu 18.04` with filesystem `ext` and `git 2.26.0`. I want to add a macOS Framework to my git repo, which fails with the following error message:
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>     $ git add -f /var/opt/project1/Foo.framework/Headers/Interior.h
>     fatal: pathspec '/var/opt/project1/Foo.framework/Headers/Interior.h' is beyond a symbolic link
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> If I use `$ git add .` it works fine. Is this a bug? This is what `ls` returns
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>     Foo.framework $ ls -l
>     lrwxr-xr-x  Headers -> Versions/Current/Headers
>     lrwxr-xr-x  Resources -> Versions/Current/Resources
>     drwxr-xr-x  Versions

This didn't add the same thing. What does a "git status" show at this point? I'd expect it would show "Versions/Current/Headers/interior.h" as added to the index, not "Headers/interior.h".

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> This sounds like a bug, correct? If not, I am thankful for any advice! Thanks!
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It doesn't necessarily seem like a bug, to me; more like a case where Git could potentially be "smarter" to try and determine that, while "Headers/interior.h" is beyond a symlink, the target of that symlink is still in the repository. (Versions/Current _is_ in the same repository, right?)

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> Best Regards,
> Daniel