On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 11:53 +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > The biggest problem with `mklink` is that it is only supported on > Windows Vista and later, while I really like to keep Windows XP > support in Git for Windows. No, the biggest problem with mklink is that you have to have administrative privileges to use it... from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link > The default security settings in Windows Vista/Windows 7 disallow > non-elevated administrators and all non-administrators from creating > symbolic links. This behavior can be changed running "secpol.msc" the > Local Security Policy management console (under: Security Settings > \Local Policies\User Rights Assignment\Create symbolic links). It can > be worked around by starting cmd.exe with Run as administrator option > or the runas command. Except even that is not so simple, as various StackOverflow questions and answers will show (I have to run so I can't look them up now). I did try to get this to work a year or so ago, and although I'm in no way a Windows person (so maybe someone else would have better luck) I couldn't get it to work. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
