I can confirm this problem on plain old ext3.
whenever git has to work on ecryptfs, symlinks fail.
I cannot add new symlinks, and all old ones(when I clone an existing repo)
permanently stay in a 'modified' state.
Linux mathijs 2.6.28-13-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 30 22:12:12 UTC 2009
x86_64 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 9.04
math...@mathijs:~$ mkdir gittest
math...@mathijs:~$ cd gittest/
math...@mathijs:~/gittest$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/mathijs/gittest/.git/
math...@mathijs:()~/gittest$ echo "test" > README
math...@mathijs:()~/gittest$ git add README
math...@mathijs:()~/gittest$ git commit -m 'readme'
Created initial commit bd94b7a: readme
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 README
math...@mathijs:(master)~/gittest$ ln -s README somelink
math...@mathijs:(master)~/gittest$ git status
# On branch master
# Untracked files:
# (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
# somelink
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
math...@mathijs:(master)~/gittest$ git add somelink
error: readlink("somelink"): Invalid argument
error: unable to index file somelink
fatal: adding files failed
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Error reading symlinks in an ecryptfs filesystem
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/380073
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