From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org,
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>,
Eliah Kagan <eliah.kagan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] compat/mingw: rename the symlink, not the target
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:12:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z7xUIjRVmmYbwRpF@pks.im> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqtt8n9mt4.fsf@gitster.g>
On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 10:26:15AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
> writes:
>
> > This contribution just came in as a Git for Windows Pull Request.
> >
> > Granted, I have not yet managed to find time to upstream support for
> > symbolic links (it is in the pipeline:
> > https://github.com/dscho/git/tree/support-symlinks-on-windows), but this
> > patch still should be in upstream Git because there are other ways to
> > create symbolic links than by using Git.
>
> Thanks, let me mark it for 'next' immediately.
The Windows API continues to be quite esoteric to me, so thanks for
plugging the gaps in my knowledge and fixing this edge case.
Patrick
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-02-24 11:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-02-21 12:01 [PATCH] compat/mingw: rename the symlink, not the target Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2025-02-21 18:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-02-24 11:12 ` Patrick Steinhardt [this message]
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