Re: Symbolic link documentation

Hi,

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:

quoted

Where does the git user documentation discuss how git handles 
symbolic links?

$ git grep symbolic Documentation/ | grep link
[...]
Documentation/config.txt:	If false, symbolic links are checked out as small plain files that
Documentation/config.txt:	symbolic links. True by default.
Documentation/git-update-index.txt:to 'false' (see gitlink:git-config[1]), symbolic links are checked out
Documentation/git-update-index.txt:from symbolic link to regular file.
Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt:files vs symbolic links) and executable bits (only for regular

These are probably what Matt was looking for.

Well, he asked where the git user documentation talks about symbolic 
links, and I provided a pointer.

Ciao,
Dscho