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symbolic links - core.symlinks=true does not work - you might want to revisit problem -- #1838
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Ummm. So what does |
That FWIW I am not completely certain that I was righ about Would you be interested in that? I am too short on time to drive this, it would need to be you... |
Goofed - didn't mean to close it. |
@aabatpurdue you surely meant to answer, though, right? |
Right? Oh well, apparently not. |
Contrary to your documentation ala making symlinks
core.symlinks=true
does not work for mebut setting the environment variable
enable MSYS=winsymlinks:nativestrict
does work.In my HOME directory:
$ touch a
$ ln -s a b
$ ls -l a b
-rw-r--r-- 1 aab 197121 0 Sep 16 21:19 a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 aab 197121 1 Sep 16 21:19 b -> a
$ rm a b
The Command Prompt
dir a b
agrees with the above. See "interesting things" below.Setup
$ git --version --build-options
git version 2.18.0.windows.1
cpu: x86_64
built from commit: cd1a74f
sizeof-long: 4
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.285]
defaults?
Don't remember
** insert your machine's response here **
$ cat /etc/install-options.txt
Editor Option: VIM
Path Option: Cmd
SSH Option: OpenSSH
CURL Option: OpenSSL
CRLF Option: CRLFAlways
Bash Terminal Option: MinTTY
Performance Tweaks FSCache: Enabled
Use Credential Manager: Enabled
Enable Symlinks: Enabled
to the issue you're seeing?
I disabled the Git for Windows
core.symlinks=true
option because it was not working. Just for grins, I didexport MSYS=winsymlinks:nativestrict
and voila no problems with real symlinks.
For me the ONLY way to get real symlinks on the entire system for any condition REQUIRES enabling
settings -> Update & Security -> For Developers -> Developer Mode
Unfortunately, this requires a sysadmin to do so. The account that I normally use does have admin privileges enabled. I also created a vanilla user that has a minimal set of privileges. I have no problems making symlinks with either account.
FWIW - As a test, removed all policy permissions and was still able to make symlinks.
Which terminal/shell are you running Git from? e.g Bash/CMD/PowerShell/othe
bash
What commands did you run to trigger this issue? If you can provide a
Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example
this will help us understand the issue.
** insert your commands here **
See short example in first section above. Without MSYS,
b
is a copy ofa
.core.symlinks=true
has no effect. Without `Developer Mode" enabled, no real symlinks can be made,n/a
n/a
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