Re: GIT on MinGW - No symbolic links support

From: Aaron Gray <angray@beeb.net>
Date: May 27, 2007, 22:56 UTC
Message-ID: <012d01c7a0b2$374eea50$0200a8c0@AMD2500>
In-Reply-To: <465A061C.7010803@xs4all.nl>

Bit of a dampener on GIT on MinGW :-

        $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
        Initialized empty Git repository in C:/MSYS/src/git/.git/
        error: git-checkout-index: unable to create symlink RelNotes 
(Function not implemented)

No Symbolic links !

There are symbolic links provided by Windows by SFU (Services For Unix) apparently.

Aaron

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