From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: "Matt Seitz (matseitz)" <matseitz@cisco.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Symbolic link documentation
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:16:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070920191651.GW3099@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <70952A932255A2489522275A628B97C3052E99F9@xmb-sjc-233.amer.cisco.com>
"Matt Seitz (matseitz)" <matseitz@cisco.com> wrote:
> From: spearce@spearce.org [mailto:spearce@spearce.org]
> >
> > So Git handles symlinks in the working tree *without*
> > dereferencing them.
>
> Thanks. Is there a recommended procedure for tracking changes when the
> symlink target is outside the working tree?
Move the link target so its inside the working tree?
Git won't step outside of the working tree to look for or to record
changes. Its outside. We don't track things outside of the part
of the world you've asked us to track.
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-20 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-20 17:17 Symbolic link documentation Matt Seitz (matseitz)
2007-09-20 17:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-20 17:27 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-09-20 17:52 ` Matt Seitz (matseitz)
2007-09-20 18:11 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-09-20 19:11 ` Matt Seitz (matseitz)
2007-09-20 19:16 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2007-09-20 17:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-20 18:50 ` Matt Seitz
2007-09-20 17:25 ` Shawn O. Pearce
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