Re: [PATCH] Add a new lstat implementation based on Win32 API, and make stat use that implementation too.
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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
- Date
- Sep 3, 2007, 11:39 UTC
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- <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709031238400.28586@racer.site>
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- <46DBA672.9050308@trolltech.com>
Hi,
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:
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> Robin Rosenberg said the following on 02.09.2007 22:27: > > s?ndag 02 september 2007 skrev Marius Storm-Olsen: > > > (Also, since Windows doesn't really handle symlinks, it's fine that > > > stat just uses lstat) > > > > It does now: See > > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363866.aspx > > Yeah, I know about Vista's improved support for symbolic links. However, > I think we can let that lay for a while, until we decide to make Git > generate proper symlinks on Vista. I don't see it as a 1st priority at > the moment, and we can always add the needed functionality in a separate > stat() function later.
... and force everybody to upgrade to Vista, thereby working for Microsoft for free? You _know_ that I will oppose that change.
Ciao, Dscho