Hi Bryant, On Thu, 5 May 2016, Bryant Bernstein wrote: > 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 -- 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