history reconstruct proves its --out directory with a leaf-only fsutil.IsRealDir (internal/surface/cli/history_reconstruct.go, writeReconstruction) and then writes the artefact and its telemetry by path, so an --out reached through a committed symlink above the leaf inside a checkout writes both files at the link's target; the lifeboat operands are proved against a symlinked ancestor with gitutil.ProveOperandDir (the operand-paths record captured on main after this branch was cut), and this is the same operand class outside lifeboat.

history reconstruct proves its --out directory with a leaf-only fsutil.IsRealDir (internal/surface/cli/history_reconstruct.go, writeReconstruction) and then writes the artefact and its telemetry by path, so an --out reached through a committed symlink above the leaf inside a checkout writes both files at the link's target; the lifeboat operands are proved against a symlinked ancestor with gitutil.ProveOperandDir (the operand-paths record captured on main after this branch was cut), and this is the same operand class outside lifeboat.

Grounds

• pursued: an --out reached through a symlink inside the checkout is refused and the link target stays empty, while a plain nested --out receives the artefact and its telemetry; a file at the link target would show it wrong