From: Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 19:35:58 GMT
Subject: Re: Uninitialized submodules as symlinks
Message-ID: <20161013193558.GC1698@ikke.info>
In-Reply-To: <20161013161017.GC29710@book.hvoigt.net>

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 06:10:17PM +0200, Heiko Voigt wrote:
> 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).