From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 19:38:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] pack-objects: add --partial-by-size=n --partial-special
Message-ID: <xmqqzigsylb1.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170310180341.bbzukqrj2zlkje2b@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I think we ended up deciding that it would be better to just disallow
> symlink .gitattributes (and .git*) from entering the index, the way we
> disallow ".git".

Hmph, I thought we would need both, though.  Or do we specifically
want to honor untracked .gitattributes that is left as a symlink
pointing to elsewhere in the filesystem or something like that?