From: Neal Kreitzinger Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:48:13 GMT Subject: Re: when does git start caring about symlinks? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: >"Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" wrote in message > >news:AANLkTi=O0pZ97kRt0jGfy20znfvfp3UTydTBn_aMBxE+@mail.gmail.com... >On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Neal Kreitzinger wrote: >> I have a question on how symlinks work and at what point git starts >> caring >> about them. If dirA/repoA/.git has no symlinks and I copy it to >> dirB/repoB/.git (ie. cp -rp /dirA/repoA/.git /dirB/repoB/.git), but /dirB >> is >> a symlink to /x/dirB does that mean that repoB contains symlinks (I >> suspect >> that repoB may be made up of all symlinks at this point)? In other words, >> if I parallel test repoA and repoB am I running a true parallel test or >> are >> the repos different because repoA has no symlinks and repoB has symlinks? > >There should be no difference between repoA and repoB until you make >changes. Symlinks outside worktree do not matter. Symlinks inside .git >dir may cause problems when you start updating repos. But I don't >think recent git creates symlinks. There are other forms of symlinks >in .git dir though: .git as a file that points to real .git dir, or >.git/info/alternates comes to mind. >-- >Duy Thank you for clarifying this for me. I see that I mistyped my copy command. It's actually "cp -rp /dirA/repoA /dirB/repoB", but you understood what I meant anyway when you stated "Symlinks outside worktree do not matter". :) v/r, Neal