From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 09 May 2015 03:45:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] sha1_name: get_sha1_with_context learns to follow symlinks
Message-ID: <xmqq7fsiifcz.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1431124726-22562-2-git-send-email-dturner@twopensource.com>

dturner@twopensource.com writes:

> From: David Turner <dturner@twitter.com>
>
> Wire up get_sha1_with_context to call get_tree_entry_follow_symlinks
> when GET_SHA1_FOLLOW_SYMLINKS is passed in flags. G_S_FOLLOW_SYMLINKS
> is incompatible with G_S_ONLY_TO_DIE because the diagnosis that
> ONLY_TO_DIE triggers does not consider symlinks.

Is "does not consider" something fundamental, or it just happens to
be that way right now?