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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Symbolic link documentation
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:52:28 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:
> > 
> > > Where does the git user documentation discuss how git handles 
> > > symbolic links?
> > 
> > $ git grep symbolic Documentation/ | grep link
> > [...]
> > Documentation/config.txt:	If false, symbolic links are checked out as small plain files that
> > Documentation/config.txt:	symbolic links. True by default.
> > Documentation/git-update-index.txt:to 'false' (see gitlink:git-config[1]), symbolic links are checked out
> > Documentation/git-update-index.txt:from symbolic link to regular file.
> > Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt:files vs symbolic links) and executable bits (only for regular
> 
> These are probably what Matt was looking for.

Well, he asked where the git user documentation talks about symbolic 
links, and I provided a pointer.

Ciao,
Dscho