Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > "Alexander Gladysh" <agladysh@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> I thought to construct my repo of the number of symlinks to other >> places, but apparently Git does not follow any symlinks. > > Git stores symlinks as symlinks. Changing that (adding for example > core.followSymlinks) would require quite a bit of surgery. In particular, this would raise the question of what to do when writting to a symlink. Following symlinks when doing a checkout or a merge could mean to allow git to write outside its working tree, which is problematic security-wise. -- Matthieu - 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
