title: Eclipse, Egit and Symlinks or symbolic links - Is it possible to make a dirty eclipse plugin to fix this?
body: <p>It's been years the problem exists because there isn't a portable way for eclipse or java to detect symlinks.</p>
  
  <p>Now symlinks are very, very useful so regardless of the non portable reason, <strong>would it be possible from an eclipse plugin to fix this and not have Egit consider symlinks and everything under it to be new files?</strong></p>