Having Git follow symlinks

Hi!

Is there a (per-repo) setting to get Git to follow symlinks in the working directory, i.e., to not store the symlinks themselves but rather work on what they point to?

Background: I have a repository that stores a number of my dotfiles, 
shared between all my machines (Linux, OSX, Windows/CygWin, Solaris). 
It is currently a CVS repo that I wish to convert to Git since CVS is 
getting more and more scarce. However, I have the repo set up so that 
I check it out into a subdirectory of its own, and have symlinks 
(junctions on Windows) both coming into it (for files that live in ~) 
and out of it (for subdirectories of ~ that cannot be symlinks 
themselves, such as ~/.ssh, or that live elsewhere, such as under 
AppData on Windows or ~/Library on MacOS). CVS handles this by 
simply not knowing anything about symlinks, and I would like to 
get Git to do the same.

I could probably get away with junctions on Windows and directory hardlinks on OSX, but that would not work on Linux.