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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org,  Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>,
	 Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Last preparations before upstreaming Git for Windows' symlink support
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:04:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqh5ssrdzu.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.2017.v2.git.1767989109.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget's message of "Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:05:04 +0000")

"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
writes:

> After preparing Git's test suite for the upcoming support for symlinks on
> Windows, this patch series touches up a couple of code paths that might not
> seem to be related at first, but need to be adjusted for the symlink support
> to work as expected.
>
> This is based on js/test-symlink-windows.
>
> Changes since v1:
>
>  * Fixed Karsten's email address
>  * Instead of allowing unlimited symlink target lengths, it is now increased
>    from 2*PATH_MAX to 32,767.

Looking good.

Let's wait for a few days to see if others have further input, and
then mark the topic, together with the other windows-symlink topic
that comes on top of this one, for 'next'.

Thanks.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-01-11  4:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-12-16 15:33 [PATCH 0/5] Last preparations before upstreaming Git for Windows' symlink support Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2025-12-16 15:33 ` [PATCH 1/5] mingw: do resolve symlinks in `getcwd()` Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2025-12-17 14:44   ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-12-16 15:33 ` [PATCH 2/5] init: do parse _all_ core.* settings early Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2025-12-17 14:44   ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-12-16 15:33 ` [PATCH 3/5] strbuf_readlink(): avoid calling `readlink()` twice in corner-cases Karsten Blees via GitGitGadget
2025-12-16 15:33 ` [PATCH 4/5] strbuf_readlink(): support link targets that exceed PATH_MAX Karsten Blees via GitGitGadget
2025-12-17 14:44   ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-12-19  8:50     ` Johannes Schindelin
2025-12-19 11:51       ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-12-30  5:00         ` Junio C Hamano
2025-12-17 23:39   ` Junio C Hamano
2025-12-16 15:33 ` [PATCH 5/5] trim_last_path_component(): avoid hard-coding the directory separator Karsten Blees via GitGitGadget
2026-01-09 20:05 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Last preparations before upstreaming Git for Windows' symlink support Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2026-01-09 20:05   ` [PATCH v2 1/5] mingw: do resolve symlinks in `getcwd()` Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2026-01-09 20:05   ` [PATCH v2 2/5] init: do parse _all_ core.* settings early Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2026-01-09 20:05   ` [PATCH v2 3/5] strbuf_readlink(): avoid calling `readlink()` twice in corner-cases Karsten Blees via GitGitGadget
2026-01-09 20:05   ` [PATCH v2 4/5] strbuf_readlink(): support link targets that exceed 2*PATH_MAX Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2026-01-09 20:05   ` [PATCH v2 5/5] trim_last_path_component(): avoid hard-coding the directory separator Karsten Blees via GitGitGadget
2026-01-11  4:04   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2026-01-12  8:35   ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Last preparations before upstreaming Git for Windows' symlink support Patrick Steinhardt

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