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From: "Yakov Lerner" <iler.ml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: symlinks
Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 22:28:32 +0300
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On 5/7/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 7 May 2006, Yakov Lerner wrote:
> >
> > I have a project that makes heavy use of symlinks in the source tree.
> > I added it to git, then cloned the repository, and all symlinks were
> > converted to plain files. What am I missing to preserve symlinks ?
>
> You're not missing anything, it sounds like a bug. What did you use to
> clone, and what version? It definitely doesn't happen for me:
>
>        mkdir symlink
>        cd symlink/
>        git-init-db
>        ln -s unknown new-link
>        ls -l
>        git add new-link
>        git commit
>
>        cd
>        git clone symlink symlink2
>        cd symlink2/
>        ls -l
>
> shows that the symlink was preserved.

Yes, I see now it's not git problem. I suspect
I just incorrectly copied the files into git-init-db directory,
something like 'cp -r' instead of 'cp -a' or tar/cpio. Sorry I'm
new to git.

Thanks
Yakov