Hi!
Is there a (per-repo) setting to get Git to follow symlinks in the
working directory, i.e., to not store the symlinks themselves but
rather work on what they point to?
Background: I have a repository that stores a number of my dotfiles,
shared between all my machines (Linux, OSX, Windows/CygWin, Solaris).
It is currently a CVS repo that I wish to convert to Git since CVS is
getting more and more scarce. However, I have the repo set up so that
I check it out into a subdirectory of its own, and have symlinks
(junctions on Windows) both coming into it (for files that live in ~)
and out of it (for subdirectories of ~ that cannot be symlinks
themselves, such as ~/.ssh, or that live elsewhere, such as under
AppData on Windows or ~/Library on MacOS). CVS handles this by
simply not knowing anything about symlinks, and I would like to
get Git to do the same.
I could probably get away with junctions on Windows and directory
hardlinks on OSX, but that would not work on Linux.
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