Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > Dear Git users, > > On Tue, 26 May 2020, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > >> I hereby announce that Git for Windows 2.27.0-rc2 is available from: >> >> https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.27.0-rc2.windows.1 > > Git for Windows v2.27.0 will be out on Tuesday (or even on Monday if Git > v2.27.0 is released early enough). It has a (last-minute) bug fix where > the length of symbolic links that is recorded in the Git index is the > _actual_ length of the link target, so that `git status` agrees between > Git for Windows and WSL Git. > > Unfortunately, that means that every existing checkout that contains > symbolic links tracked by Git will report them as changed until `git add > <path-to-symlink>` (or `git add -u`) is called. So, this is not something "git update-index --refresh" would be able to fix? > > In cases where users use both Git Bash and another version of Git, this > might cause the problem where one of them will always report the symbolic > links as modified in `git status`, but not in `git diff`. > > Sorry about the late heads-up, I only just realized that this might pose a > problem. Granted, symbolic links are not all _that_ common on Windows. > > Ciao, > Johannes
