Re: RFC: git cat-file --follow-symlinks?

David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com> writes:

That invocation does not make any sense to me, at least within the context of what has been discussed for ^{resolve}, which is an instruction to the "name to object name" mapping layer to notice symbolic links while it traverses the tree containment relationships starting from the root of the tree to arrive at a single object name.

    git rev-parse HEAD^{resolve}:path/that/might/involve/symlink/some/where
    git cat-file HEAD^{resolve}:path/that/might/involve/symlink/some/where
    git grep -e pattern HEAD^{resolve}:path/that/might/involve/symlink/some/where

would, though. In other words, ^{resolve} that is not followed by a colon and path is something entirely different from what we have been discussing.