On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 01:42:06PM +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote: > > I am still carrying around my "symlinks as a special class of diff" > > patches if you are interested: > > > > https://github.com/peff/git/tree/jk/userdiff-symlinks > > This is marvelous (except for s/perl -pe/sed -e/, of course). I used perl because many older seds have trouble with files not ending in newline. > Is there anything left to do to get this in pu? (The reference to > "previous patch" may need to be more explicit.) See this subthread for discussion: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/156760 On the one hand, there were doubts that anybody would actually want to use it (though it looks like you may be the counterexample to that). On the other hand, it may be that the solution does not go far enough, and that .gitattributes should become aware of file types in its matching. That would be more flexible, and it would also fix other broken areas (like the fact that a symlink to foo.pdf might have its symlink text merged as if it were a pdf). -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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