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. But maybe there's a bug in some older version, or in some other clone protocol... Linus - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html