On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 01:39:17PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > How about something like "--symlink-all" where the everything in the > > right-hand tree is symlink'd? > > Does it even have to be conditional? What is the situation when you > do not want symbolic links? When you're not comparing the working tree. If we can reliably say "the RHS is the working tree" then it could be unconditional, but I haven't thought about how to do that - I can't see a particularly easy way to check for that; is it sufficient to say "there is no more than one non-option to the left of '--' and '--cached' is not among the options"? John -- 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