I've ran into an issue wherein Git believes that a file is beyond a symbolic link, and that, thus, it cannot be version controlled, but it appears to be a real file.

[root@r1 h]# stat -f conf/core-site.xml 
  File: "conf/core-site.xml"
    ID: 5c7eb82882a6e866 Namelen: 255     Type: ext2/ext3
Block size: 4096       Fundamental block size: 4096
Blocks: Total: 2735511    Free: 510158     Available: 371202
Inodes: Total: 694960     Free: 597972

Additionally, I've tried "readlink" to show the link pointer, but to no avail.

How does Git determine if a file is a symbolic link or not?

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