From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:14:24 GMT
Subject: Re: Getting rid of symlinks in .git?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511111511050.7575@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <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