diff --git a/Mage/Task/BuiltIn/Deployment/Strategy/TarGzTask.php b/Mage/Task/BuiltIn/Deployment/Strategy/TarGzTask.php
index 9bb1b25..ba16246 100644
--- a/Mage/Task/BuiltIn/Deployment/Strategy/TarGzTask.php
+++ b/Mage/Task/BuiltIn/Deployment/Strategy/TarGzTask.php
@@ -77,7 +77,10 @@ class TarGzTask extends BaseStrategyTaskAbstract implements IsReleaseAware
             $strategyFlags = '';
         }
 
-        $command = 'tar cfzh' . $strategyFlags . ' ' . $localTarGz . '.tar.gz ' . $excludeCmd . $excludeFromFileCmd . ' -C ' . $this->getConfig()->deployment('from') . ' .';
+        // remove h option only if dump-symlinks is allowed in the release config part
+        $dumpSymlinks = $this->getConfig()->release('dump-symlinks') ? '' : 'h';
+
+        $command = 'tar cfz'. $dumpSymlinks . $strategyFlags . ' ' . $localTarGz . '.tar.gz ' . $excludeCmd . $excludeFromFileCmd . ' -C ' . $this->getConfig()->deployment('from') . ' .';
         $result = $this->runCommandLocal($command);
 
         // Strategy Flags
diff --git a/docs/example-config/.mage/config/environment/production.yml.dump-symlinks.txt b/docs/example-config/.mage/config/environment/production.yml.dump-symlinks.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1ff2547
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/example-config/.mage/config/environment/production.yml.dump-symlinks.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+#production
+deployment:
+  user: root
+  from: ./
+#  source:
+#    type: git
+#    repository: git://github.com/andres-montanez/Magallanes.git
+#    from: master
+#    temporal: /tmp/myAppClone
+  to: /var/www/vhosts/example.com/www
+  excludes:
+    - application/data/cache/twig/*
+releases:
+  enabled: true
+  max: 5
+  symlink: current
+  directory: releases
+# This option allows to dump the symlink with the TarGz strategy and use the symlink on the deployment host.
+# This is useful, if the files the symlink point to only exist on the deployment host and not on the host who runs the mage command.
+# The default value is false to keep bc.
+# See : http://linux.die.net/man/1/tar   -h, --dereference
+  dump-symlinks: true
+hosts:
+  - s01.example.com
+  - s02.example.com
+#  s02.example.com:
+#    deployment:
+#      user: toor
+#      to: /home/web/public
+#    releases:
+#      max: 10
+#    tasks:
+#      on-deploy:
+#        - privileges
+tasks:
+  pre-deploy:
+    - scm/update
+  on-deploy:
+    - symfony2/cache-warmup: { env: prod }
+    - privileges
+    - sampleTask
+    - sampleTaskRollbackAware
+  #post-deploy: