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. - 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