[[!comment format=mdwn username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawl9sYlePmv1xK-VvjBdN-5doOa_Xw-jH4U" nickname="Richard" subject="comment 1" date="2012-10-30T09:07:37Z" content=""" I think the automatic dropunused part is handled by the assistant already anyway, but in case it's not: The git repo still knows where the symlink pointed to so it should not be a problem to get that info from the last commit that was 'actively' locally and which contained said symlink. """]]