On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 14:16 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > 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? Oh, right. So, how about [sha] "symlink" [bytes] "\n" [target] instead? -- 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