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Re: Uninitialized submodules as symlinks

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Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
Date
Oct 13, 2016, 19:35 UTC
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<20161013193558.GC1698@ikke.info>
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<20161013161017.GC29710@book.hvoigt.net>
On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 06:10:17PM +0200, Heiko Voigt wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 06:17:05PM +0000, David Turner wrote:
> > Presently, uninitialized submodules are materialized in the working
> > tree as empty directories.  We would like to consider having them be
> > symlinks.  Specifically, we'd like them to be symlinks into a FUSE
> > filesystem which retrieves files on demand.
> 
> How about portability? This feature would only work on Unix like
> operating systems. You have to be careful to not break Windows since
> they do not have symlinks.
>

NTFS does have symlinks, but you need admin right to create them though (unless you change the policy).

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Message 7 of 10 in “Uninitialized submodules as symlinks”
  1. David TurnerOct 7, 2016
  2. Stefan BellerOct 7, 2016
  3. David TurnerOct 7, 2016
  4. Duy NguyenOct 17, 2016
  5. David TurnerOct 17, 2016
  6. Heiko VoigtOct 13, 2016
  7. Kevin DaudtOct 13, 2016
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 14, 2016
  9. Heiko VoigtOct 17, 2016
  10. David TurnerOct 17, 2016

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