[TxMt] TextMate overwrites symlinks

[Tim Harper]

Jay,

You are awesome, thanks for the answer.  Works like a charm.

Tim

On Mar 26, 2008, at 12:03 AM, Jay Soffian wrote:

> 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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