Subject: Re: Having Git follow symlinks

From: Matthieu Moy <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 13:37:17 +0100

Peter Krefting <[email-masked]> writes:

> Yeah, but then I have copies of the files, instead of having the files
> themselves under version control, meaning I need to copy them back to
> push changes back, or to merge them. That is undesirable :-/

One option is to have the symlink in the other direction: make /etc/foo
a symlink to $GIT_WORKTREE/foo and version the later.

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