From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: "Alexander Gladysh" <agladysh@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Q] Tell Git to follow symlinks?
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:06:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqtzjxbba3.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3k5ktbep1.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (Jakub Narebski's message of "Mon\, 25 Feb 2008 00\:52\:48 -0800 \(PST\)")
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> "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.
In particular, this would raise the question of what to do when
writting to a symlink. Following symlinks when doing a checkout or a
merge could mean to allow git to write outside its working tree, which
is problematic security-wise.
--
Matthieu
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-25 10:09 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
2008-02-25 10:06 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
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