Subject: Re: RFC: git cat-file --follow-symlinks?

From: David Turner <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:24:30 -0700

On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 14:16 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> David Turner wrote:
> 
> > Instead, it would be cool if cat-file had a mode in which it would
> > follow symlinks.
> 
> Makes sense.
> 
> > The major wrinkle is that symlinks can point outside the repository --
> > either because they are absolute paths, or because they are relative
> > paths with enough ../ in them.  For this case, I propose that
> > --follow-symlinks should output [sha] "symlink" [target] instead of the
> > usual [sha] "blob" [bytes].
> 
> What happens when the symlink payload contains a newline?

Oh, right.
So, how about [sha] "symlink" [bytes] "\n" [target] instead?