* Cygwin Git cannot create Windows native symlinks
@ 2017-03-09 3:00 Steven Penny
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From: Steven Penny @ 2017-03-09 3:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Cygwin can easily create Windows native symlinks:
touch alfa.txt
CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native ln -s alfa.txt bravo.txt
However Cygwin Git seems to have no way to create Windows native symlinks:
CYGWIN=winsymlinks:lnk git clone git://github.com/stedolan/jq
creates README as a Shortcut (.lnk) file.
CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native git clone git://github.com/stedolan/jq
creates README as a Cygwin symlink, not a Windows native symlink.
CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict git clone git://github.com/stedolan/jq
just creates a plain text file, not even a symlink:
$ cat jq/README
README.md
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Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
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