RE: Symbolic link documentation

From: spearce@spearce.org [mailto:spearce@spearce.org] 

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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.

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Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt:files vs symbolic links) and 
executable bits (only for regular

These are probably what Matt was looking for.

The git-update-index and git-update-ref manual references are the
closest to what I was looking for.  Both are more low-level and
technical than what I was hoping for, and the discussion in
git-update-index seems targeted primarily at how symlinks are translated
on file systems that don't support symlinks.

I guess I was looking for something like the GNU "tar" documentation of
how symlinks are handled
(http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/dereference.html#deref
erence).

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Matt Seitz
Manager, File System Virtualization
Cisco Systems, Inc.
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