Subject: Re: change symlink

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:19:07 +0100

shawn wilson <[email-masked]> writes:

> i'm curious why this is being reported as deleted in status and diff
> and not modified? this was tested on a build of the master branch of
> the current git repo (1.8.0).
>
> mkdir t cd t; git --init
>
> touch test
> git add test
> git commit test -m "test"
>
> ln -s test t2
> git add t2
> git commit t2 -m "symlink"
>
> rm t2
> mkdir -p t2/one
> ln -s test t2/one/test
  git add t2/one/test

> this then shows up as:
>
>  % git status
> # On branch master
> # Changes not staged for commit:
> #   (use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed)
> #   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
> #
> #       deleted:    t2
> #
> no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

I'd expected t2/one/test be reported as untracked.

Andreas.

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