On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 01:19:50PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > Getting back to the overall feature, this is definitely something that > has come up before. The last I know of is: > > https://lore.kernel.org/git/20181220002610.43832-1-sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > which everybody seemed to like the direction of; I suspect the original > author (cc'd) just never got around to it again. Compared to this > approach, it uses a command-line option to avoid dereferencing symlinks. > That puts an extra burden on the caller to pass the option, but it's way > less magical; you could drop all of the "does this look like a symlink > to a pipe" heuristics. It would also be much easier to test. ;) Of course I forgot to add the cc. +cc brian.
