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Re: gitignore as symbolic link

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JRJustus Ranvier <justus@opentransactions.org>
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Oct 23, 2021, 15:40 UTC
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On 10/23/21 04:01, brian m. carlson wrote:
> For example, I

I'm glad that works for you and whatever organizations you happen to be involved in. I'm sure you're happy that git taking away this capability did not impact your workflow.

Other people have different use cases and operate under different sets of constraints and are considerably inconvenienced when functionality that has worked for many years is suddenly removed from a core piece of software like git.

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