Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Last preparations before upstreaming Git for Windows' symlink support

From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: Jan 12, 2026, 08:35 UTC
Message-ID: <aWSyXfxOkpWMgX6D@pks.im>
In-Reply-To: <pull.2017.v2.git.1767989109.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 09, 2026 at 08:05:04PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:

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> After preparing Git's test suite for the upcoming support for symlinks on
> Windows, this patch series touches up a couple of code paths that might not
> seem to be related at first, but need to be adjusted for the symlink support
> to work as expected.
> 
> This is based on js/test-symlink-windows.
> 
> Changes since v1:
> 
>  * Fixed Karsten's email address
>  * Instead of allowing unlimited symlink target lengths, it is now increased
>    from 2*PATH_MAX to 32,767.

Thanks, this version looks good to me based on the range-diff.

Patrick

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