The "release_path" (/c/foo/bar) does not exist

[acharseth]

I am trying to run deployer on my Windows laptop under git bash.
It seem to work fine up to after run export GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT="0" ...
The following command fails:

run cd /c/Users/me/foo/.dep/repo && (if [ -h /c/Users/me/foo/release ]; then echo +right; fi)

This gives error message:

The "release_path" (/c/Users/me/foo/release) does not exist.

The problem is that this folder does exist. I suspect though that this is related to symbolic links in Windows. if [ -h ... checks if symbolic link exists, right? If I manually run this in a git bash window the check fails but if I do a if [ -a... or if [ -d... then this test works.

How can I fix this?

[acharseth]

Based on googling it looks like you either have to be administrator in Windows or have "Windows developer mode" enabled (dev settings > dev mode > "enable installing apps from any source"). Ref. eg. https://gist.github.com/huenisys/1efb64e57c37cfab7054c65702588fce.
For cases where these alternatives are not an option on Windows (or where use of symbolic links are not considered a good solution in general) how should this be solved?