Re: possible regression (or me abusing git) in v1.5.5

tarmigan+git@gmail.com writes:

After upgrading to v1.5.5, I noticed a change in the way that git
treats symbolic links.

Git will follow symbolic links to directories when they were added as follows

$ git init
$ mkdir foo
$ touch foo/bar
$ ln -s foo foo1
$ git add foo1/

In this step "git add" adds "foo1/bar", which is a bug that is shared
between 1.5.5 and previous versions.

Recent "git add -u" after that was taught to notice this bogosity (it
actually is git-diff-* family that was fixed), and fixes it.