On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 06:10:17PM +0200, Heiko Voigt wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 06:17:05PM +0000, David Turner wrote: > > Presently, uninitialized submodules are materialized in the working > > tree as empty directories. We would like to consider having them be > > symlinks. Specifically, we'd like them to be symlinks into a FUSE > > filesystem which retrieves files on demand. > > How about portability? This feature would only work on Unix like > operating systems. You have to be careful to not break Windows since > they do not have symlinks. > NTFS does have symlinks, but you need admin right to create them though (unless you change the policy).