Re: [PATCH] compat/mingw: rename the symlink, not the target

From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: Feb 24, 2025, 11:12 UTC
Message-ID: <Z7xUIjRVmmYbwRpF@pks.im>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqtt8n9mt4.fsf@gitster.g>

On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 10:26:15AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> "Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
> writes:
> 
> >     This contribution just came in as a Git for Windows Pull Request.
> >     
> >     Granted, I have not yet managed to find time to upstream support for
> >     symbolic links (it is in the pipeline:
> >     https://github.com/dscho/git/tree/support-symlinks-on-windows), but this
> >     patch still should be in upstream Git because there are other ways to
> >     create symbolic links than by using Git.
> 
> Thanks, let me mark it for 'next' immediately.

The Windows API continues to be quite esoteric to me, so thanks for plugging the gaps in my knowledge and fixing this edge case.

Patrick