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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: "Alexander Gladysh" <agladysh@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Q] Tell Git to follow symlinks?
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:52:48 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k5ktbep1.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c6c947f60802240305w40a7af96yc47f90e573384c04@mail.gmail.com>

"Alexander Gladysh" <agladysh@gmail.com> writes:

> I thought to construct my repo of the number of symlinks to other
> places, but apparently Git does not follow any symlinks.

Git stores symlinks as symlinks. Changing that (adding for example
core.followSymlinks) would require quite a bit of surgery.

You can alternatively try to work with GIT_DIR, or/and with
explicitely specifying worktree (and working from within repo), and/or
symlinking .git.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-25  8:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-24 11:05 [Q] Tell Git to follow symlinks? Alexander Gladysh
2008-02-24 15:08 ` Remi Vanicat
2008-02-24 18:22   ` Alexander Gladysh
2008-02-25  5:54   ` David Tweed
2008-02-25  8:52 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2008-02-25 10:06   ` Matthieu Moy

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