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From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Subject: Re: git 0.99.7b doesn't build on Cygwin
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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



- Davide