From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Subject: git and symlinks as tracked content Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 20:33:54 +0200 Message-ID: <1115145234.21105.111.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 03 20:32:33 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DT29p-00023a-CW for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 03 May 2005 20:30:09 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261570AbVECSgC (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 14:36:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261566AbVECSfo (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 14:35:44 -0400 Received: from soundwarez.org ([217.160.171.123]:19343 "EHLO soundwarez.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261559AbVECSd7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 14:33:59 -0400 Received: from dhcp-113.off.vrfy.org (c169067.adsl.hansenet.de [213.39.169.67]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by soundwarez.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2D3A2C97D for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 20:33:53 +0200 (CEST) To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 (2.2.2-1) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Is there a sane model to make git aware of tracking symlinks in the repository? In the bk udev tree we've had a test sysfs-tree with a lot of symlinks in it. Where can we store the link-target? In its own blob-object or directly in the tree-object? How would a exported "patch" with symlinks as content look like? Thanks, Kay