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From: Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com>
Subject: Re: MinGW port updated, now self-hosting again
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Johannes Sixt wrote:
> 
> I've updated the MinGW port at
> 
> pull/clone: git://repo.or.cz/git/mingw.git
> gitweb:     http://repo.or.cz/w/git/mingw.git
> 
> Thanks to the recent additions of fake symlink support, this version is
> now self-hosting on Windows again.

I forgot to mention: To make the repository self-hosting, you must set

  git config core.symlinks false

but since you can do this only after a repository exists, a 'git clone'
will still fail during the checkout phase. To fix up the failure, just
enter the repository, set core.symlinks false, and follow-up with a 'git
reset --hard'.

-- Hannes