On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 21:16 -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 06:06:23PM -0700, David Turner wrote:
> 3. Ditto for out-of-tree. Note that this would be the _raw_ symlink
> contents, not any kind of simplification (so if you asked for
> "foo/bar/baz" and it was "../../../../out", you would the full path
> with all those dots, not a simplified "../out", which I think is
> what you were trying to show in earlier examples).
Unfortunately, we need the simplified version, because we otherwise
don't know what the ..s are relative to in the case of a link to a link:
echo content >dest ;# actual blob
mkdir -p foo/bar
ln -s foo/bar/baz fleem # in-tree link-to-link
ln -s ../../../external foo/bar/baz # out-of-tree link
If echo HEAD^{resolve}:fleem were to return ../../../external (after
following the first symlink to the second), we would have lost
information.
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