change symlink

i'm curious why this is being reported as deleted in status and diff and not modified? this was tested on a build of the master branch of the current git repo (1.8.0).

mkdir t cd t; git --init

touch test git add test git commit test -m "test"

ln -s test t2 git add t2 git commit t2 -m "symlink"

rm t2 mkdir -p t2/one ln -s test t2/one/test

this then shows up as:

 % git status
# On branch master
# Changes not staged for commit:
#   (use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed)
#   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
#
#       deleted:    t2
#
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
 % git --no-pager diff