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Re: [Q] Tell Git to follow symlinks?

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 25, 2008, 08:52 UTC
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"Alexander Gladysh" <agladysh@gmail.com> writes:
> I thought to construct my repo of the number of symlinks to other
> places, but apparently Git does not follow any symlinks.

Git stores symlinks as symlinks. Changing that (adding for example core.followSymlinks) would require quite a bit of surgery.

You can alternatively try to work with GIT_DIR, or/and with explicitely specifying worktree (and working from within repo), and/or symlinking .git.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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  5. Jakub NarebskiFeb 25, 2008
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