From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Sixt Subject: Re: GIT on MinGW - No symbolic links support Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 09:11:01 +0200 Organization: eudaptics software gmbh Message-ID: <465BD205.5D7BDF5D@eudaptics.com> References: <1dbc01c79432$b4400a80$0200a8c0@AMD2500> <464534EE.30904@xs4all.nl> <4656A304.AF39A0B6@eudaptics.com> <4659D306.6030803@xs4all.nl> <00a601c7a09f$218c1020$0200a8c0@AMD2500> <4659F5D0.2070406@xs4all.nl> <00b901c7a0a5$77983420$0200a8c0@AMD2500> <00c401c7a0a7$8a5690a0$0200a8c0@AMD2500> <00ef01c7a0ad$78508e00$0200a8c0@AMD2500> <465A061C.7010803@xs4all.nl> <012d01c7a0b2$374eea50$0200a8c0@AMD2500> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 29 09:22:13 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hsw1x-0004Fs-7h for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 09:22:09 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754101AbXE2HWG (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 03:22:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754135AbXE2HWF (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 03:22:05 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:52616 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754101AbXE2HWD (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 03:22:03 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Hsvvn-0008ST-PG for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 09:15:47 +0200 Received: from cm56-163-160.liwest.at ([86.56.163.160]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 09:15:37 +0200 Received: from J.Sixt by cm56-163-160.liwest.at with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 09:15:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm56-163-160.liwest.at X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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