git-annex/doc/todo/smudge/comment_2_e04b32caa0d2b4c577cdaf382a3ff7f6._comment

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2011-04-03 20:30:22 +00:00
[[!comment format=mdwn
username="http://dieter-be.myopenid.com/"
nickname="dieter"
subject="symlinks"
date="2011-04-03T20:30:21Z"
content="""
> (Sadly, it cannot create a symlink, as git still wants to write the file afterwards.
> So the nice current behavior of unavailable files being clearly missing due to dangling symlinks, would be lost when using smudge/clean filters. (Contact git developers to get an interface to do this?)
Have you checked what the smudge filter sees when the input is a symlink? Because git supports tracking symlinks, so it should also support pushing symlinks through a smudge filter, right?
Either way: yes, contact the git devs, one can only ask and hope. And if you can demonstrate the awesomeness of git-annex they might get more 1interested :)
"""]]