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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable USE_SYMLINK_HEAD by default
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On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 12:21:35PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> > Sorry, I must have missed that part.  How does fetch-over-HTTP
> > break with symlinked HEAD?

Symlinks can also be problematic for push-over-HTTP, since there are no
guarantees about the backend on the server (eg. pushing into a
subversion repo with mod_dav_svn.)

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