Module symlink 

Canonical symlink-target → blob-bytes conversion.

Git stores a symlink’s target as the raw bytes of the link, which on Unix is an arbitrary byte sequence and need not be valid UTF-8. Every site that turns a symlink target into a blob (capture, status hashing, diff/rename similarity, patch generation) must use these raw bytes — a to_string_lossy conversion replaces invalid bytes with U+FFFD, producing a hash that never matches git’s and a patch that recreates the link with a corrupted target. This is the single source of truth so the platform byte extraction is not forked across crates.

Functions

symlink_target_bytes

The bytes git would store as a symlink’s blob: the raw OS bytes of the link target. On non-Unix platforms the target is text and lossy conversion is acceptable because the filesystem does not preserve arbitrary bytes.