Re: GIT on MinGW - No symbolic links support

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Hi,

On Sun, 27 May 2007, Aaron Gray wrote:

> Bit of a dampener on GIT on MinGW :-
> 
>        $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
>        Initialized empty Git repository in C:/MSYS/src/git/.git/
>        error: git-checkout-index: unable to create symlink RelNotes (Function
> not implemented)
> 
> No Symbolic links !
> 
> There are symbolic links provided by Windows by SFU (Services For Unix)
> apparently.

Does not work on FAT. Has lots of problems.

That's why Johannes Sixt pushed for core.symlinks, and got it. So maybe 
the templates should set core.symlinks=false?

Ciao,
Dscho

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