Bruno Haible wrote:
I can add options -h / --hardlink, -H / --more-hardlinks, with similar logic as -s / --symlink, -S / --more-symlinks.
I wasn't thinking of anything that complicated, though of course it would suffice. I was just wanting the longstanding behavior.
You mean the question Symbolic link to Git-controlled source file; follow link? (yes or no)
Yes, that's the main annoyance I was thinking of.
When you set vc-follow-symlinks to nil,
I don't want to do that. I want to edit just one file and have it affect everything I'm working on, without hassling me about it. Better, I suppose, would be setting vc-follow-symlinks to t, but that sounds too drastic for other stuff that I'm working on, where the default value 'ask' is often the right thing to do.
