Re: [Q] Tell Git to follow symlinks?

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On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Remi Vanicat <vanicat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  > I thought to construct my repo of the number of symlinks to other
>  > places, but apparently Git does not follow any simlinks.
>
>  Hope so, I use this feature, for example to manage my debian
>  alternatives.

I do not advocate removal of this useful feature, but may be there are
some arcane switch or even a simple source hack that would help me in
my specific case, :)

>  > Please give me some directions on the building such dumb backup
>  > system I want :)
>
>  I use "reverse" symlinks: the files i want to manage are replaced by
>  symlink to the file that is in then git repository:
> <...>

Yes, this is an option, thank you. But it would involve altering
existing software configurations (like enabling FollowSymLinks in
Apache etc.) -- which I would like to avoid if possible.

Thank you,
Alexander.
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