[TxMt] TextMate overwrites symlinks

Jay Soffian jaysoffian at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 06:03:15 UTC 2008


On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Tim Harper <timcharper at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just ran into this problem today.  In our project, we have several
>  files that our mirrored, so we use git to manage the symlinks.  Today
>  we discovered that you can open a symlinked file, but when you try to
>  go and save it, the symlink is erased and replaced with a brand new
>  file, rather than updating the contents of the file that the symlink
>  points to.
>
>  Is this a known issue?  Is there any suggested workaround for it?
>  (other than, make sure you don't edit a symlinked file?)

Only an issue if atomic saves are enabled. So, disable atomic saves.
You shouldn't it if you've got the files managed by git anyway, right?

j.



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