Traversing symlinks

[Martin Geisler]

Hi guys,

Way back in 2007, this changeset was added:

  http://selenic.com/hg/rev/d316124ebbea

It makes Mercurial abort when it encounters a symlink on the way to a
file -- even when the symlink points inside the repository:

  $ ln -s contrib extra
  $ hg status extra/mq.el
  abort: path 'extra/mq.el' traverses symbolic link 'extra'

This seems a tad too restrictive to me, and Bryan did also flag this in
the test and commit message.

Would anybody object to me lifting this restriction?

-- 
Martin Geisler

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