From: Rene Kita <mail@rkta.de>
To: Justus Ranvier <justus@opentransactions.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gitignore as symbolic link
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 18:49:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YXLro/8c1Feg6TcN@kitchen> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fcf288fc-72b7-964c-e462-496066528c7b@opentransactions.org>
On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 05:07:44PM -0800, Justus Ranvier wrote:
> I have several repositories where the top level .gitignore file is a
> symbolic link to the actual file which is contained in a submodule which all
> the repositories share.
>
> This worked fine up to and including version 2.31.1 but as of 2.32.0 running
> any command which would cause .gitignore to be read results in a "too many
> levels of symbolic links error" and git behaves as if .gitignore is not
> present.
>
This was fixed in commit a185dd58ecc17f2ea16985d59c9bb7b09bec7775 [1].
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqlf83h2a7.fsf@gitster.g/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-22 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-22 1:07 gitignore as symbolic link Justus Ranvier
2021-10-22 16:49 ` Rene Kita [this message]
2021-10-22 22:40 ` Matheus Tavares
2021-10-22 23:29 ` Justus Ranvier
2021-10-22 23:55 ` Justus Ranvier
2021-10-23 12:01 ` brian m. carlson
2021-10-23 15:40 ` Justus Ranvier
2021-10-23 20:49 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
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