From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:04:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Change handling of RelNotes
Message-ID: <7v642w44uy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070831013935.GM1219@pasky.or.cz>

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

> On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 03:35:36AM CEST, Stephen Cuppett wrote:
>> With this one abnormality the git repo on a normal flash drive doesn't
>> work... at least in my case.
>
> Wouldn't it be better to minimalize the restriction imposed to you by
> git in case you are working on a filesystem that doesn't support
> symlinks? Let's say that in that case Git will keep the symlink only in
> the index... (And perhaps warn.)

Didn't we already add support for Cygwin/MinGW in the form of
core.symlinks configuration item?

I just did this:

	$ git clone -l -s -n git.git victim-005
        $ cd victim-005
        $ git config core.symlinks false
        $ git checkout