Re: git 0.99.7b doesn't build on Cygwin

From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Date: Sep 24, 2005, 21:52 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0509241451510.16554@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <7vd5myuoi0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> writes:
>
>> On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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>>> Making really really core part usable on Windows would not need
>>> this, but there is another thing: .git/HEAD symlink.
>>
>> Starting from Win2k, they *finally* added:
>>
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/createhardlink.asp
>
> It talks about "a hard link".  Can we readlink it?

Nope. It's an hardlink (ala link(2)).

- Davide

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