Re: Getting rid of symlinks in .git?

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: 2005-11-11 23:43:18
On 11/11/05, Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@hogyros.de> wrote:
> > I personally would not mind getting rid of symlinks completely, but we
> > will still have to support them for some reasonable time period (several
> > major releases, as far as Cogito is concerned - actually, there is
> > plenty of people still using 0.13 and such).
>
> As someone who carries around git repositories on VFAT formatted USB
> sticks, I welcome our symlink-deprived overlords.
>

But you shouldn't care if you have reasonably recent git everywhere:
symlinks and their absence already handled: .git/config created by
init-db contains the configuration parameter for filemode, which
decides whether it is safe to use the symlinks on the underlying
filesystem.
It looks more like a rhetorical question of code cleanup, because
in-file symlinks already handle all possible cases.
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