[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="http://dieter-be.myopenid.com/"
 nickname="dieter"
 subject="symlinks"
 date="2011-04-03T20:30:21Z"
 content="""
> (Sadly, it cannot create a symlink, as git still wants to write the file afterwards.
> So the nice current behavior of unavailable files being clearly missing due to dangling symlinks, would be lost when using smudge/clean filters. (Contact git developers to get an interface to do this?)

Have you checked what the smudge filter sees when the input is a symlink? Because git supports tracking symlinks, so it should also support pushing symlinks through a smudge filter, right?
Either way: yes, contact the git devs, one can only ask and hope.  And if you can demonstrate the awesomeness of git-annex they might get more 1interested :)
"""]]