On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 02:58:37PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Let's err on the safe side and disable symlinks to outside repo by > > default (or even all symlinks on .gitattributes and .gitignore as the > > first step) > > > > What I learned from my changes in .gitignore is, if we have not > > forbidden something, people likely find some creative use for it. > > Yup. Supporting any symlink in-tree is like requiring Git to be > used only on symlink-capable filesystems. Not allowing it sounds > like a very sensible option and unlike true contents, there is no > downside to give that limitation to things like .git<anything>.
I'm slightly confused. Did you mean "supporting any in-tree symlink to an out-of-tree destination" in your first sentence? > Shouldn't we do the same for .gitmodules while we are at it? Good catch. Though I am inclined to have a flag that just covers all out-of-tree symlinks, regardless of names. -Peff
