Re: [PATCH 2/4] refs: mostly remove core.preferSymlinkRefs
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Sep 30, 2024, 20:13 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> I noticed these because I had a similar proposal long ago, which never > got merged (I don't think because anybody particularly disagreed, but it > fell through the cracks and never got picked up again): > > https://lore.kernel.org/git/20151230065343.GA26964@sigill.intra.peff.net/ > > What you have here is (modulo the two hunks above) more complete than > what I have, so I don't think there's anything else to try to salvage > from it. A little bit of the history in the linked commit message is > interesting as to how we ended up here, but ultimately not really that > important.
It was useful to find out another reason (which I failed to mention in this series) why symbolic links will be misleading: when it points at a ref that is in packed-refs.
Thanks.