Hi,
If git-mv is provided absolute paths when moving symlinks, it tries to
dereference them and (attempts to) move the symlink target rather than the
symlink itself, this seems like a quite odd behaviour since it's inconsistent
with how git-mv works with symlinks if given relative paths, and I'm thinking
it might be a bug, since it not documented in the git-mv manpage.
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$ git init linktest
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/arand/tmp/linktest/.git/
$ cd linktest/
$ touch target
$ ln -s target link
$ ln -s /tmp/target link2
$ git add .
$ git commit -m1
[master (root-commit) 3cfea66] 1
3 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
create mode 120000 link
create mode 120000 link2
create mode 100644 target
$ git mv "$(pwd)/link" "$(pwd)/moved"
$ git status
On branch master
Changes to be committed:
(use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
renamed: target -> moved
$ git mv "$(pwd)/link2" "$(pwd)/moved2"
fatal: /home/arand/tmp/linktest/link2: '/home/arand/tmp/linktest/link2' is outside repository
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Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@xxxxxxxxx>
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