On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 09:48:16AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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. Yes and that is why Git for Windows does not use them and I simplified to: "Windows does not have symlinks". For a normal user there is no such thing as symlinks on Windows, unfortunately. Cheers Heiko