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On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 04:40:43PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Note that the only symlink/symref you usually have is .git/HEAD. But it 
> feels wrong to take the worse approach in *all* cases, just because 
> *one* brain-fscked file system/operating system does not support the 
> superior approach.

Symlinks at the other end of an HTTP transport are also similarly
brain-challenged.

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