Hi, David Turner wrote: > Instead, it would be cool if cat-file had a mode in which it would > follow symlinks. Makes sense. > The major wrinkle is that symlinks can point outside the repository -- > either because they are absolute paths, or because they are relative > paths with enough ../ in them. For this case, I propose that > --follow-symlinks should output [sha] "symlink" [target] instead of the > usual [sha] "blob" [bytes]. What happens when the symlink payload contains a newline? Thanks, Jonathan -- 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