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

From
Sedat Kapanoglu <sedat@eksiteknoloji.com>
Date
Aug 10, 2013, 12:10 UTC
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Hi,
I verified this behavior on Git 1.7.8 and 1.8.3.

My D:\src folder is a symlink to another folder in my Google Drive, created by Windows command mklink /d d:\src "d:\Google Drive\src"

D:\src>git clone https://github.com/jlewallen/jenkins-hipchat-plugin.git Cloning into 'jenkins-hipchat-plugin'... fatal: Invalid symlink 'D:/src': Function not implemented

The same error is shown with the bash prompt too:

$ git clone https://github.com/jlewallen/jenkins-hipchat-plugin.git Cloning into 'jenkins-hipchat-plugin'... fatal: Invalid symlink 'd:/src': Function not implemented

If I go one directory below (D:\src\somethingelse) the command works fine but not at the root of the symlink directory.

Thanks,
Sedat
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