Re: Symbolic link documentation

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 20, 2007, 17:52 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709201851190.28395@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20070920172736.GU3099@spearce.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:
> > 
> > > Where does the git user documentation discuss how git handles 
> > > symbolic links?
> > 
> > $ git grep symbolic Documentation/ | grep link
> > [...]
> > Documentation/config.txt:	If false, symbolic links are checked out as small plain files that
> > Documentation/config.txt:	symbolic links. True by default.
> > Documentation/git-update-index.txt:to 'false' (see gitlink:git-config[1]), symbolic links are checked out
> > Documentation/git-update-index.txt:from symbolic link to regular file.
> > Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt:files vs symbolic links) and executable bits (only for regular
> 
> These are probably what Matt was looking for.

Well, he asked where the git user documentation talks about symbolic links, and I provided a pointer.

Ciao, Dscho