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Cygwin Git cannot create Windows native symlinks
- From: Steven Penny <svnpenn at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 19:00:20 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Cygwin Git cannot create Windows native symlinks
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Cygwin can easily create Windows native symlinks:
touch alfa.txt
CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native ln -s alfa.txt bravo.txt
However Cygwin Git seems to have no way to create Windows native symlinks:
CYGWIN=winsymlinks:lnk git clone git://github.com/stedolan/jq
creates README as a Shortcut (.lnk) file.
CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native git clone git://github.com/stedolan/jq
creates README as a Cygwin symlink, not a Windows native symlink.
CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict git clone git://github.com/stedolan/jq
just creates a plain text file, not even a symlink:
$ cat jq/README
README.md
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