Re: git clone doesn't work in symlink dir roots on Windows

From: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>
Date: Aug 10, 2013, 16:34 UTC
Message-ID: <20130810163459.GE25779@paksenarrion.iveqy.com>
In-Reply-To: <CABJxLaOaUYxyAsy5mpciiAObmoazFpwB0T4C20cu3eHuSpEpAg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 07:22:03PM +0300, Sedat Kapanoglu wrote:

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> > git is a disk intense program, so this setup is not sane at all. With
> > that said I know that git on windows historically had problems with
> > working on smb-mounted shares (sometimes you're forced to have stupid
> > setups). I doubt that git really is the right tool for your work, since
> 
> I reproduced the same problem in a regular symlink directory. Repro steps:
> 
> mkdir actualdir
> mklink /d symdir actualdir
> cd symdir
> git init .
> 
> fatal: Invalid symlink 'D:/gitto': Function not implemented
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sedat

Good, then we can determinate that this is a symlink error, it seams that readlink() isn't implemented in the msysgit version of msysgit.

However msysgit should have a implementation of readlink() according to: http://mingw.5.n7.nabble.com/Replacement-for-readlink-td30679.html

I've CC:ed the msysgit-maillist so that they can decide if this is something they want to address in newer releases.

(In the git source code the readlink call in this abspath.c)

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