Git and symlinks

Question

I have 2 issues:

I want git to ignore symlinks
I have noticed late that it is committing symlinks. HOw can i remove these committed symlinks. They have already been pushed to a remote.

score 15 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 09 '13 at 16:01

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add all symbolic links in .gitignore

find . -type l >> .gitignore

remove all symbolic links from repository

find . -type l -exec git rm --cached {} \;

answered Mar 09 '13 at 16:01

Alec

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This solved the problem for me. I had already tried the first line, but the second was the one that did it. – Gerome Bochmann Sep 15 '16 at 12:36

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 08 '13 at 22:27

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1) Don't git add any symlinks then. That includes things like git add -A and what-not that automatically add things that aren't currently being tracked.

2) git rm <symlink>; repeat for each symlink, then git commit. Of course you'll need to do this on every branch. Also, if you want to remove all symlinks throughout your project's history, you'll need to do the same on every commit, which can be done with git filter-branch.

answered Mar 08 '13 at 22:27

twalberg

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Also, add any symlinks into `.gitignore`. – Wilduck Mar 08 '13 at 22:34

Git and symlinks

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