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What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue) Using git "difftool --dir-diff" on windows on a lfs repository
What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior) I expected it to call the configured tool with no errors
What happened instead? (Actual behavior) I get the error error: could not symlink 'D:/xxxx/KUS.a2l' to 'C:\xxxx/KUS.a2l': Function not implemented
To fix this I need to call difftool with "--no-symlinks" but the documentation mentions that "--no-symlinks" is the default on windows. Well, it clearly isn't.
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[System Info] git version: git version 2.52.0.windows.1 cpu: x86_64 built from commit: 2912d8e9b8253723974b7baf1c890273b1a1c5bd sizeof-long: 4 sizeof-size_t: 8 shell-path: D:/git-sdk-64-build-installers/usr/bin/sh rust: disabled feature: fsmonitor--daemon libcurl: 8.17.0 OpenSSL: OpenSSL 3.5.4 30 Sep 2025 zlib: 1.3.1 SHA-1: SHA1_DC SHA-256: SHA256_BLK default-ref-format: files default-hash: sha1 uname: Windows 10.0 26100 compiler info: gnuc: 15.2 libc info: no libc information available $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): <unset>
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