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Bug 351976

Summary: git status in shell and Git Staging view inconsistent handle broken links differently
Product: [Technology] EGit Reporter: Marc-Philip <marc-philip.werner>
Component: CoreAssignee: Project Inbox <egit.core-inbox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: matthias.sohn, robin
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on: 354367    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Marc-Philip CLA 2011-07-13 10:12:29 EDT 
Build Identifier: 20110615-0604

Hi,
I happen to have a broken link in my branch. The broken link points to a file that is in the same directory as the link. The branch is clean according to "git status" command. 

The Git Staging view displays this link as an "Unstaged Change".

The link points to a  git status on command line seems to ignore the fact that the link is broken (

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create broken link, e.g. ln -s test.1 test.2 (you have a link test.2 now).
2. Commit this to your repository.
3. Open "Git Staging" view.
Comment 1 Marc-Philip CLA 2011-07-13 10:15:47 EDT 
EGit version is 1.0.0.201106090707-r
Comment 2 Matthias Sohn CLA 2013-09-13 07:58:36 EDT 
JGit and EGit do not yet support symlinks see bug 354367

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 354367 ***