From: Sedat Kapanoglu <sedat@eksiteknoloji.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 16:22:03 GMT
Subject: Re: git clone doesn't work in symlink dir roots on Windows
Message-ID: <CABJxLaOaUYxyAsy5mpciiAObmoazFpwB0T4C20cu3eHuSpEpAg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130810125140.GD25779@paksenarrion.iveqy.com>

> git is a disk intense program, so this setup is not sane at all. With
> that said I know that git on windows historically had problems with
> working on smb-mounted shares (sometimes you're forced to have stupid
> setups). I doubt that git really is the right tool for your work, since

I reproduced the same problem in a regular symlink directory. Repro steps:

mkdir actualdir
mklink /d symdir actualdir
cd symdir
git init .

fatal: Invalid symlink 'D:/gitto': Function not implemented

Thanks,

Sedat