From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: git cat-file --follow-symlinks?
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:16:15 -0700
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Hi,

David Turner wrote:

> Instead, it would be cool if cat-file had a mode in which it would
> follow symlinks.

Makes sense.

> The major wrinkle is that symlinks can point outside the repository --
> either because they are absolute paths, or because they are relative
> paths with enough ../ in them.  For this case, I propose that
> --follow-symlinks should output [sha] "symlink" [target] instead of the
> usual [sha] "blob" [bytes].

What happens when the symlink payload contains a newline?

Thanks,
Jonathan