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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.