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Re: Getting rid of symlinks in .git?

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Nov 11, 2005, 14:14 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0511111511050.7575@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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<43746118.30404@hogyros.de>
Hi,
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Simon Richter wrote:
> As someone who carries around git repositories on VFAT formatted USB 
> sticks, I welcome our symlink-deprived overlords.

Please note that symlinks are much more performant than symrefs. Working a lot with switching branches, this matters.

And -- as has been mentioned elsewhere -- it is no longer a problem to work on filesystems which don't support symlinks using a platform which does.

Hth, Dscho

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  1. Petr BaudisNov 10, 2005
  2. Simon RichterNov 11, 2005
  3. Alex RiesenNov 11, 2005
  4. Petr BaudisNov 11, 2005
  5. Junio C HamanoNov 15, 2005
  6. Alex RiesenNov 15, 2005
  7. Johannes SchindelinNov 11, 2005
  8. Petr BaudisNov 11, 2005
  9. Johannes SchindelinNov 11, 2005
  10. Petr BaudisNov 11, 2005
  11. Johannes SchindelinNov 11, 2005
  12. Nick HengeveldNov 11, 2005
  13. Alex RiesenNov 11, 2005

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