i'm curious why this is being reported as deleted in status and diff and not modified? this was tested on a build of the master branch of the current git repo (1.8.0). mkdir t cd t; git --init touch test git add test git commit test -m "test" ln -s test t2 git add t2 git commit t2 -m "symlink" rm t2 mkdir -p t2/one ln -s test t2/one/test this then shows up as: % git status # On branch master # Changes not staged for commit: # (use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed) # (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory) # # deleted: t2 # no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a") % git --no-pager diff diff --git a/t2 b/t2 deleted file mode 120000 index 30d74d2..0000000 --- a/t2 +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -test \\ No newline at end of file -- 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