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From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: ignoring files/directories in git
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:19:20 +0400
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On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 01:41:07PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> 
> Ok I found it. Regular subdirectories it works as you said,
> but soft-link to a folder does not.

Why should it? Git does not follow symbolic links regardless whether
they point to files or directories. In fact, Git does extra checks to
avoid something like: symlink-to-dir/normal-file to be added as a
normal file. There was some discussion about it a couple months ago
("Not going beyond symbolic links").


Dmitry