Re: GIT on MinGW - No symbolic links support

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Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> 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?

This setting should be placed into $(sysconfigdir)/gitconfig. I'll hack
up something in the next days. The "challenge" is that $(sysconfigdir)
must not be hardcoded (because the installation location is not known
until runtime). A similar thing I have already done with
$(template_dir).

-- Hannes

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