From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 18:19:39 GMT
Subject: Re: RFC: git cat-file --follow-symlinks?
Message-ID: <xmqqzj5pzdfo.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1430417023.22711.8.camel@ubuntu>

David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com> writes:

> In no case did we do a ls-files command,...

"ls-tree -r" is what I would have imagined you would be using, as
somebody needs to have the full repository in order to resolve the
symbolic links _anyway_, and that somebody does not need to have a
checkout in order to do so.