From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:44:57 GMT
Subject: Re: symbolic link management in git-archive
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803271244420.3802@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20080327114024.GR14567@genesis.frugalware.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Miklos Vajna wrote:

> 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