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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-05-12 14:22:19 +0900 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-05-12 14:22:19 +0900 |
| commit | 51a55bc4ecf70f5836e65d13a82c613e070ac990 (patch) | |
| tree | d880c033a10533f5379a99968f475d667d3fd40f /gitmodules.txt | |
| parent | cd56dd5585d64b65937fe5001d2f24fa39f254dd (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-51a55bc4ecf70f5836e65d13a82c613e070ac990.tar.gz | |
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diff --git a/gitmodules.txt b/gitmodules.txt index 8e333dde1..dcee09b50 100644 --- a/gitmodules.txt +++ b/gitmodules.txt @@ -98,6 +98,14 @@ submodule.<name>.shallow:: shallow clone (with a history depth of 1) unless the user explicitly asks for a non-shallow clone. +NOTES +----- + +Git does not allow the `.gitmodules` file within a working tree to be a +symbolic link, and will refuse to check out such a tree entry. This +keeps behavior consistent when the file is accessed from the index or a +tree versus from the filesystem, and helps Git reliably enforce security +checks of the file contents. EXAMPLES -------- |