From: Sedat Kapanoglu <sedat@eksiteknoloji.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 12:10:49 GMT
Subject: git clone doesn't work in symlink dir roots on Windows
Message-ID: <CABJxLaM9t1HeEVkAiXpOmaOH_V6681w9Q9ZQt37+MpmhX7yN2g@mail.gmail.com>

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