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From: Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Bug: git add with absolute path fails if repo root dir is a symlink
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 10:23:12 +0300
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On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 09:25, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:

> I can't run git add with absolute path if the repository's root
> directory is a symlink.

Note that this issue is also triggered if *any* of the directories in
path above of my repo are symlinks.

This is a show-stopper for my current workflow.

Is there a way to quickly workaround this somehow?

Alexander.