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On 11/15/05, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> > But you shouldn't care if you have reasonably recent git everywhere:
> > symlinks and their absence already handled: .git/config created by
> > init-db contains the configuration parameter for filemode, which
> > decides whether it is safe to use the symlinks on the underlying
> > filesystem.
>
> No, no no nononononono....
>
> core.filemode is whether the executable bit is trustworthy and
> does not have anything to do with symlinked heads, although
> these two happen to become problematic on VFAT.

Of course! Silly me...