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From: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: change symlink
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:03:36 +0000
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> why is this different?
>
> You didn't tell git about t2/one/test.  You need to add it first to make
> it known.
>

and once it's added, status says:
#       renamed:    t2 -> t2/one/test

that's not exactly true, but...

i guess the point is to only track files? if this is the case, i still
disagree with what status is reporting but i suppose it's fine (from a
bug point of view).