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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
