Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 02:58:37PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > I'm slightly confused. Did you mean "supporting any in-tree symlink to > an out-of-tree destination" in your first sentence? I was trying to say that these "control files used solely by git" have no business being a symbolic link pointing at anywhere, even inside the same tree; actually, especially if it is inside the same tree.