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I've ran into an issue wherein Git believes that a file is beyond a symbolic link, and that, thus, it cannot be version controlled, but it appears to be a real file.
[root@r1 h]# stat -f conf/core-site.xml
File: "conf/core-site.xml"
ID: 5c7eb82882a6e866 Namelen: 255 Type: ext2/ext3
Block size: 4096 Fundamental block size: 4096
Blocks: Total: 2735511 Free: 510158 Available: 371202
Inodes: Total: 694960 Free: 597972
Additionally, I've tried "readlink" to show the link pointer, but to no avail.
How does Git determine if a file is a symbolic link or not?
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The best way to remove a symlink is with the appropriately named “unlink” tool. Using unlink to delete a symlink is extremely simple, you just need to point it at the symbolic link to unlink and remove. As always with the command line, be sure your syntax is precise.
A symbolic link is a special type of file whose contents are a string that is the pathname of another file, the file to which the link refers. (The contents of a symbolic link can be read using readlink(2).) So a symbolic link is one more file, just as a README.md or a Makefile .
/project/subproject/conf
If you need to add the /conf into the main project and add symlinks for subprojects,
$ cp /project/subproject/conf /project
$ rm /project/subproject/conf
$ commit changes
$ cd /project/subproject/
$ ln -s ../conf/ conf
$ commit changes
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