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

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 21, 2025, 18:26 UTC
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"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

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>     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.
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