Re: GIT on MinGW - No symbolic links support

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 27, 2007, 23:56 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705280054140.4648@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <012d01c7a0b2$374eea50$0200a8c0@AMD2500>

Hi,

On Sun, 27 May 2007, Aaron Gray wrote:

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> Bit of a dampener on GIT on MinGW :-
> 
>        $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
>        Initialized empty Git repository in C:/MSYS/src/git/.git/
>        error: git-checkout-index: unable to create symlink RelNotes (Function
> not implemented)
> 
> No Symbolic links !
> 
> There are symbolic links provided by Windows by SFU (Services For Unix)
> apparently.

Does not work on FAT. Has lots of problems.

That's why Johannes Sixt pushed for core.symlinks, and got it. So maybe the templates should set core.symlinks=false?

Ciao, Dscho

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