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Re: symbolic link management in git-archive

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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Mar 27, 2008, 11:44 UTC
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Hi,
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Miklos Vajna wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:29:28AM +0000, Sergio Callegari <sergio.callegari@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I guess the answer is "no" or "not yet", but is there a way to tell the zip
> > backend of git-archive to follow symbolic links rather than to store them?
> 
> how would that handle a '. -> foo' symlink? following such a recursion
> would lead to an infinite loop, i guess.
Don't forget '/ -> foo'.

Ciao, Dscho

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