Kevin Daudt <me@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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). That sounds like saying "It has, but it practically is not usable by Git as a mechanism to achieve this goal" to me.