From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:06:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [Q] Tell Git to follow symlinks?
Message-ID: <vpqtzjxbba3.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <m3k5ktbep1.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> "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.

In particular, this would raise the question of what to do when
writting to a symlink. Following symlinks when doing a checkout or a
merge could mean to allow git to write outside its working tree, which
is problematic security-wise.

-- 
Matthieu