From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 12:37:17 GMT
Subject: Re: Having Git follow symlinks
Message-ID: <vpqa9ed1w8y.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1401300958320.30100@ds9.cixit.se>

Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se> writes:

> Yeah, but then I have copies of the files, instead of having the files
> themselves under version control, meaning I need to copy them back to
> push changes back, or to merge them. That is undesirable :-/

One option is to have the symlink in the other direction: make /etc/foo
a symlink to $GIT_WORKTREE/foo and version the later.

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Matthieu Moy
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