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

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 11:19:39 -0700

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.