Moving Symlinks in git makes ClearCase checkin fail

[chrahunt]

My git repository has a symlink pointing into a VOB. From a..b the symlink moved. gitcc checkin failed (after uncoing checked out files) with error: Exception: cleartool: Error: Not an element: "example.hpp". This seems to be due to gitcc only considering the type output of git diff around here and then status.Rename trying to check out the file. Per this article it looks like the typical way to edit a VOB symbolic link is to delete it and recreate it. Any change here will also need to change the conflict check logic since the symlink created with cleartool ln will have a different object hash than the existing symlink in git. or do a symlink-specific check.

In the next commit I had actually changed the symlink into a file, so as a workaround I checked out the directory, replaced the symlinks with files, then checked in and executed gitcc checkin --force.