From: Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GIT on MinGW - No symbolic links support
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 09:11:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <465BD205.5D7BDF5D@eudaptics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.64.0705280054140.4648@racer.site
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 27 May 2007, Aaron Gray wrote:
>
> > Bit of a dampener on GIT on MinGW :-
> >
> > $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
> > Initialized empty Git repository in C:/MSYS/src/git/.git/
> > error: git-checkout-index: unable to create symlink RelNotes (Function
> > not implemented)
> >
> > No Symbolic links !
> >
> > There are symbolic links provided by Windows by SFU (Services For Unix)
> > apparently.
>
> Does not work on FAT. Has lots of problems.
>
> That's why Johannes Sixt pushed for core.symlinks, and got it. So maybe
> the templates should set core.symlinks=false?
This setting should be placed into $(sysconfigdir)/gitconfig. I'll hack
up something in the next days. The "challenge" is that $(sysconfigdir)
must not be hardcoded (because the installation location is not known
until runtime). A similar thing I have already done with
$(template_dir).
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-29 7:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-12 1:13 GIT on MinGW problem Aaron Gray
2007-05-12 1:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-12 2:25 ` Aaron Gray
2007-05-12 3:30 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-05-25 8:49 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-05-25 9:45 ` Marco Costalba
2007-05-25 10:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-25 11:07 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-05-26 19:42 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-05-26 22:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-27 6:56 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-05-27 10:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-27 17:04 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-05-28 16:54 ` Nix
2007-05-27 20:44 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705272213350.4648@racer.site>
[not found] ` <f329bf540705271417k1874c1f2u3acc98dc25e058b9@mail.gmail.com>
2007-05-27 21:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-25 21:37 ` Aaron Gray
2007-05-26 19:41 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-05-26 22:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-26 22:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-26 22:45 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-26 22:53 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-05-26 23:47 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-27 6:30 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-05-27 6:39 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-27 7:02 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-05-27 7:21 ` Steven Grimm
2007-05-27 9:09 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-27 23:18 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-05-28 0:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-28 0:31 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-05-27 10:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-27 18:50 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-05-27 19:52 ` GIT on MinGW, with tcltk for gitk Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-05-27 20:39 ` Aaron Gray
2007-05-27 21:19 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-05-27 21:24 ` Aaron Gray
2007-05-27 21:39 ` Aaron Gray
2007-05-27 21:55 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-05-27 22:22 ` Aaron Gray
2007-05-27 22:28 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-05-27 22:56 ` GIT on MinGW - No symbolic links support Aaron Gray
2007-05-27 23:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-29 7:11 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2007-05-27 22:22 ` GIT on MinGW, with tcltk for gitk Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-05-29 10:54 ` GIT on MinGW problem Johannes Sixt
2007-05-29 11:45 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2007-05-29 12:10 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-05-29 14:29 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-05-29 14:49 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-05-29 12:11 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-29 13:05 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2007-05-29 13:24 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-05-29 14:36 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2007-05-29 13:47 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-29 14:13 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-05-29 15:28 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-05-29 15:47 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-05-29 18:45 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-05-30 3:03 ` [PATCH] Make git-k an alias to gitk Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-30 7:06 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-05-30 2:16 ` GIT on MinGW problem Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-05-30 2:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-30 2:57 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-30 3:25 ` [PATCH] Git wrapper: add --redirect-stderr option Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-30 3:38 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-30 3:45 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-30 3:53 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-30 4:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
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