I have a central .gitignore on my laptop and for each project that I create, I create a symbolic link to that central file so that I can keep a uniform policy across all of my projects.
All of my projects are like each other (technology-wise) and it makes sense to have a central .gitignore to reduce the burden of maintenance.
However, recently I see this message:
warning: unable to access '.gitignore': Too many levels of symbolic links
And as I searched, it seems that from git 2.3 upwards they have decided to not support the symbolic link.
I have two questions. First, is there a way to force git to support symbolic links for .gitignore? And why on Earth do they not support it anymore? Does it not make sense to reuse code? Is half of linux not reused through symbolic links?