Re: symbolic links in Git for Windows v2.27.0, was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.27.0-rc2

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Dear Git users,
>
> On Tue, 26 May 2020, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
>> I hereby announce that Git for Windows 2.27.0-rc2 is available from:
>>
>>     https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.27.0-rc2.windows.1
>
> Git for Windows v2.27.0 will be out on Tuesday (or even on Monday if Git
> v2.27.0 is released early enough). It has a (last-minute) bug fix where
> the length of symbolic links that is recorded in the Git index is the
> _actual_ length of the link target, so that `git status` agrees between
> Git for Windows and WSL Git.
>
> Unfortunately, that means that every existing checkout that contains
> symbolic links tracked by Git will report them as changed until `git add
> <path-to-symlink>` (or `git add -u`) is called.

So, this is not something "git update-index --refresh" would be able
to fix?

>
> In cases where users use both Git Bash and another version of Git, this
> might cause the problem where one of them will always report the symbolic
> links as modified in `git status`, but not in `git diff`.
>
> Sorry about the late heads-up, I only just realized that this might pose a
> problem. Granted, symbolic links are not all _that_ common on Windows.
>
> Ciao,
> Johannes