Re: gitignore as symbolic link
On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 05:07:44PM -0800, Justus Ranvier wrote:
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> I have several repositories where the top level .gitignore file is a
> symbolic link to the actual file which is contained in a submodule which all
> the repositories share.
>
> This worked fine up to and including version 2.31.1 but as of 2.32.0 running
> any command which would cause .gitignore to be read results in a "too many
> levels of symbolic links error" and git behaves as if .gitignore is not
> present.
>
This was fixed in commit a185dd58ecc17f2ea16985d59c9bb7b09bec7775 [1].
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqlf83h2a7.fsf@gitster.g/