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possible problem / bug

Subject: possible problem / bug

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2 messages between May 5, 2016 and May 13, 2016.

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Bryant Bernstein· May 5, 2016, 02:19 UTC · lore

Both windows and linux support links but both git and the git bash seem to have a problem with them.

In my source, (originally on Linux) I have a link in my source directory to a config file which I normally import into python. This allows me to have something.py pointing to config.txt . config.txt can be opened by an editor and something.py can be imported into a python shell.

This worked in Linux alone and on windows as both platforms support links. But if I use git to bring my code from linux to windows I end up with a file that contains the path to the target file.

Then I went to try to see what git bash would do with a link.

I created a file and a link to it using ln -s This created a copy of the file I wanted to link to.

What do you think? Should this work better?

Bryant Bernstein
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Johannes Schindelin· May 13, 2016, 11:39 UTC · re: Bryant Bernstein · lore

Re: possible problem / bug

Hi Bryant,
On Thu, 5 May 2016, Bryant Bernstein wrote:
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> Both windows and linux support links but both git and the git bash
> seem to have a problem with them.
> 
> In my source, (originally on Linux) I have a link in my source
> directory to a config file which I normally import into python.  This
> allows me to have something.py pointing to config.txt .  config.txt
> can be opened by an editor and something.py can be imported into a
> python shell.
> 
> This worked in Linux alone and on windows  as both platforms support
> links.  But if I use git to bring my code from linux to windows I end
> up with a file that contains the path to the target file.
> 
> Then I went to try to see what git bash would do with a link.
> 
> I created a file and a link to it using ln -s
> This created a copy of the file I wanted to link to.
> 
> What do you think?
> Should this work better?
See https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/Symbolic-Links

Ciao, Johannes

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