From: Erik Faye-Lund Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 03:04:13 GMT Subject: Re: git clone doesn't work in symlink dir roots on Windows Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20130810163459.GE25779@paksenarrion.iveqy.com> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Fredrik Gustafsson wrote: > On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 07:22:03PM +0300, Sedat Kapanoglu wrote: >> > 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 > > Good, then we can determinate that this is a symlink error, it seams > that readlink() isn't implemented in the msysgit version of msysgit. > > However msysgit should have a implementation of readlink() according to: > http://mingw.5.n7.nabble.com/Replacement-for-readlink-td30679.html > > I've CC:ed the msysgit-maillist so that they can decide if this is > something they want to address in newer releases. No, we do not. (I won't be bothered to read *yet* another thread about someone who thinks they know how symlinks should work on Windows, so I'll assume it's the Cygwin-take... which is the most senseful IMO) Symlinks in Cygwin are generally not compatible with native Windows applications. And Windows symlinks are not at all compatible with POSIX-symlinks. At all. Whoever wants symlink support in Git for Windows have clearly not considered how this would work (or more likely, break). It's an idea built on misunderstanding and poor engineering-concepts. There's no way we can support symlinks in a clean, Windows specific way. So let's not even pretend it works. That being said, we could probably error out in a more senseful way. But if so,suggestions/patches welcome. -- -- *** Please reply-to-all at all times *** *** (do not pretend to know who is subscribed and who is not) *** *** Please avoid top-posting. *** The msysGit Wiki is here: https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki - Github accounts are free. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "msysGit" group. To post to this group, send email to msysgit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to msysgit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, and view previous threads, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit?hl=en_US?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "msysGit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to msysgit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.