Hello,
After upgrading to v1.5.5, I noticed a change in the way that git treats symbolic links.
Git will follow symbolic links to directories when they were added as follows
$ git init $ mkdir foo $ touch foo/bar $ ln -s foo foo1 $ git add foo1/ # Note the trailing slash above.
In v1.5.5 (but not v1.5.4.5 and earlier), $ git add -u will remove foo1/bar from the index.
I have bisected this down to f58dbf (diff-files: careful when inspecting work tree items).
The ability for git to follow links (instead of recording them) was a useful feature for me, but I may have been abusing this "feature". If that is the consensus, it might make sense to have $ git add foo1 and $ git add foo1/ behave the same way?
Thanks, Tarmigan
