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YLYakov Lerner <iler.ml@gmail.com>
Date
May 7, 2006, 17:47 UTC
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Hello,

I have a project that makes heavy use of symlinks in the source tree. I added it to git, then cloned the repository, and all symlinks were converted to plain files. What am I missing to preserve symlinks ?

Yakov
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