From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2026 04:04:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Last preparations before upstreaming Git for Windows' symlink support
Message-ID: <xmqqh5ssrdzu.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <pull.2017.v2.git.1767989109.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
writes:

> 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.

Looking good.

Let's wait for a few days to see if others have further input, and
then mark the topic, together with the other windows-symlink topic
that comes on top of this one, for 'next'.

Thanks.