I do PHP development on a Windows 7 workstation using Netbeans. Netbeans sychronizes files with a remote Linux server that is where the code is executed. If I change branches, and there's a new symlink, Netbeans will upload the text file to my remote server, which breaks the symlink. Is there a way to have git ignore symbolic links altogether? Perhaps a different solution altogether?
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you should be able to pick and choose which files you commit.. simply don't commit those symlinked directories. – Zombiesplat Aug 04 '14 at 16:48
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It looks like this guy has had some luck with a custom solution. [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5917249/git-symlinks-in-windows](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5917249/git-symlinks-in-windows) – Zombiesplat Aug 04 '14 at 16:51
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Thanks @AlanAsher, but neither of those really address the question that I'm asking. – Sonny Aug 04 '14 at 17:22
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I would suggest a real filesystem that supports symlinks, windows isn't well known for mounting other file systems I'm afraid.
Maybe you could run a virtualbox VM and use the Shared File-system option. Otherwise Netbeans surely also includes the ability to mount a remote unix filesytem..
In fact WinSCP can do that for you I believe but it seems like such a pain.
Of course you could just run Netbeans on linux or OSX. I highly recommend mint cinnamon to all my developers and only one of 9 (and counting) has reverted to win7. They love their sshfs connections direct to the dev servers ;-)
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OK, I found it: http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/ - Why would you use that over Ubuntu? – Sonny Aug 04 '14 at 17:32