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Git cannot create Windows native symlinks #27
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@me-and any comment? I am also requesting new version: |
(I really need to get GitHub notifications working in a more reliable fashion; notifications about things I actually care about like this are far too often getting lost in the noise.) It looks to me like the problem is Cygwin failing to create native symlinks. If you look at the Interestingly, I get the same behaviour with The next question, then, is working out why running |
I just ran into this and noticed that if I delete a symlink and then use |
This issue is causing lots of headaches for me over here. |
This is a summary of what I found out about this issue: |
Cygwin can easily create Windows native symlinks:
However Cygwin Git seems to have no way to create Windows native symlinks:
creates README as a Shortcut (.lnk) file.
creates README as a Cygwin symlink, not a Windows native symlink.
just creates a plain text file, not even a symlink:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-03/msg00110.html
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