Ignore symbolic links in .gitignore
Use git version >= 1.6
Git used to treat sym-links the same as regular files, but newer git versions (>= 1.6) check if a file is beyond a symbolic link and will throw a fatal error.
e.g.:
# git init # mkdir newdir # touch newdir/foo # git add newdir/foo # git commit -m 'add foo' # mv newdir /tmp/ # ln -s /tmp/newdir # touch newdir/bar # git add newdir/bar fatal: 'newdir/bar' is beyond a symbolic link# git add/tmp/newdirfatal: '/tmp/newdir' is outside repository# git --versiongit version 1.7.3.4
No, it is not possible to do this globally. However, if you have lots of symlinks here is a bash script that you can use to easily add them to your repo's .gitignore file:
for f in $(git status --porcelain | grep '^??' | sed 's/^?? //'); do test -L "$f" && echo $f >> .gitignore; # add symlinks test -d "$f" && echo $f\* >> .gitignore; # add new directories as welldone