git assume unchanged vs skip worktree - ignoring a symbolic link
I have a problems with a git repository and windows. The problem is that the git repository has a linux symbolic link in it and with developers running windows, that obviously does not work. Now since that symbolic link should never change, I want to find a way to delete that on developers and add a folder in its place (which is what the symbolic points to) but have git ignore those particular changes. Now I can remove the symbolic links, create a folder of the same name and just add a .gitignore that ignores everything. Now as far as making sure git ignore the removal of the symbolic link, I