Re: [Q] Tell Git to follow symlinks?

Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:

"Alexander Gladysh" [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

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