ed on the command line.
The temporary file names are always safe strings; they will never
contain directory separators or whitespace characters.  The path
field is always relative to the current directory and the temporary
file names are always relative to the top level directory.</p>
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<p>If the object being copied out to a temporary file is a symbolic
link the content of the link will be written to a normal file.  It is
up to the end-user or the Porcelain to make use of this i