From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sedat Kapanoglu Subject: Re: git clone doesn't work in symlink dir roots on Windows Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:22:03 +0300 Message-ID: References: <20130810125140.GD25779@paksenarrion.iveqy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Fredrik Gustafsson X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 10 18:22:13 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V8Bvg-0005zz-Nb for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Aug 2013 18:22:13 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964927Ab3HJQWH (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Aug 2013 12:22:07 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f170.google.com ([209.85.214.170]:39304 "EHLO mail-ob0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964886Ab3HJQWG (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Aug 2013 12:22:06 -0400 Received: by mail-ob0-f170.google.com with SMTP id eh20so7622833obb.29 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2013 09:22:05 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-gm-message-state:dkim-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=3wj1WJCDB7ZQagfrSF6ez3yImiZcnXdFtIMrDW1tvhI=; b=k/1flXJgG3z0OmqGeXJ12T9Yn35TsoJEh9SBym+CrhCisZdTNsFpbd7Z4vxu5ZAPP+ 8HjRsH5lKArAxcJfK7Ji58Y7iyAOiKF1OUVk/4wJFaaJF4/hEV2FIcH4VfXHoct9o3wt slBUad9uD3MM71fKo+flhnok9xEi7QhUs/2Smz+JDtNnfZ+dZ/0pw0Sy07YylY74Skte wymi15VbiDFGyZSxseUq0uv2U4okU74GPDhGB8gZvw6T1zTpjEZIYCqqpWkbX2B2MTPm P+XXYbqbshGij7yWmormiX888ivm7AJn7e2uIOuMW+hncDFSMCcV/IL89rp5eDlUkYWk 87aA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQm51W3VyfzopD9oY9/N9PyQNey9NI0/6ewZTzv+nM6OaZXH+bFnEKg07hbbq1FjHx+0IV81 X-Received: by 10.182.87.170 with SMTP id az10mr7576647obb.10.1376151725801; Sat, 10 Aug 2013 09:22:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-oa0-x22e.google.com (mail-oa0-x22e.google.com [2607:f8b0:4003:c02::22e]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id z5sm24501035obg.13.2013.08.10.09.22.04 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 10 Aug 2013 09:22:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-oa0-f46.google.com with SMTP id l10so3421557oag.19 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2013 09:22:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eksiteknoloji.com; s=google; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=3wj1WJCDB7ZQagfrSF6ez3yImiZcnXdFtIMrDW1tvhI=; b=AcwLuRKcifdYMjJMG797DLwX6OcZudwDTJRoBj/evE2IHcX9tB21A00ryQ2q7dNoXT QxoLYnv5LMjmNr2+kR1NjEQT1UxX0rXcyi5+/KozI3zR3llkGRwnnxSQbWgqzY3W6lsy O0pvIHOSYvswd61Q77/e2ePYZ1zD2/X49hBks= X-Received: by 10.60.51.41 with SMTP id h9mr4692950oeo.49.1376151723897; Sat, 10 Aug 2013 09:22:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.81.3 with HTTP; Sat, 10 Aug 2013 09:22:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130810125140.GD25779@paksenarrion.iveqy.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > git is a disk intense program, so this setup is not sane at all. With > that said I know that git on windows historically had problems with > working on smb-mounted shares (sometimes you're forced to have stupid > setups). I doubt that git really is the right tool for your work, since I reproduced the same problem in a regular symlink directory. Repro steps: mkdir actualdir mklink /d symdir actualdir cd symdir git init . fatal: Invalid symlink 'D:/gitto': Function not implemented Thanks, Sedat