Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > Deleting across symlinks inside the repo can be brushed aside with "eh, > well, it is just another way to mention the same name in the > filesystem". But deleting anything outside of the repo seems actively > wrong.
Yup, you finally caught up ;-) IIRC, such an outside repository target was the case people realized that "git add" shouldn't see across symlinks. > Hmm. I think you have convinced me (or perhaps I have convinced myself) > that we should generally not be crossing symlink boundaries in > translating names between the filesystem and index. I still don't want > to work on it, though. :) That is OK. Just let's not etch a wrong behaviour in stone with that test. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html