From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2016 22:58:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] attr: do not respect symlinks for in-tree .gitattributes
Message-ID: <xmqqmvh88dlu.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8BoEXDjwe=ZX5ZOC_mvaMjYrB3i7wcMmiOP3mm5-rwC5Q@mail.gmail.com>

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> Let's err on the safe side and disable symlinks to outside repo by
> default (or even all symlinks on .gitattributes and .gitignore as the
> first step)
>
> What I learned from my changes in .gitignore is, if we have not
> forbidden something, people likely find some creative use for it.

Yup.  Supporting any symlink in-tree is like requiring Git to be
used only on symlink-capable filesystems.  Not allowing it sounds
like a very sensible option and unlike true contents, there is no
downside to give that limitation to things like .git<anything>.

Shouldn't we do the same for .gitmodules while we are at it?