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

From: David Turner <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 11:28:42 -0700

On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 11:19 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> David Turner <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > In no case did we do a ls-files command,...
> 
> "ls-tree -r" is what I would have imagined you would be using, as
> somebody needs to have the full repository in order to resolve the
> symbolic links _anyway_, and that somebody does not need to have a
> checkout in order to do so.

Yes, they have the full repo, but we are only exploring a small fraction
of it. ls-tree -r would require parsing the entire thing.