Re: RFC: git cat-file --follow-symlinks?

Hi,

David Turner wrote:

Instead, it would be cool if cat-file had a mode in which it would
follow symlinks.

Makes sense.

The major wrinkle is that symlinks can point outside the repository --
either because they are absolute paths, or because they are relative
paths with enough ../ in them.  For this case, I propose that
--follow-symlinks should output [sha] "symlink" [target] instead of the
usual [sha] "blob" [bytes].

What happens when the symlink payload contains a newline?

Thanks,
Jonathan