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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: git 0.99.7b doesn't build on Cygwin
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:47:35 -0700
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Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> writes:

> On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Making really really core part usable on Windows would not need
>> this, but there is another thing: .git/HEAD symlink.
>
> Starting from Win2k, they *finally* added:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/createhardlink.asp

It talks about "a hard link".  Can we readlink it?