It seems that even handling a symlink is not supported at all. Dabu, did you find any further information? Sadly no. It has it's drawbacks, but speed is not one of them. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Windows 7 Installation, Setup, and Deployment. Coombs 0. Sign in to vote. On both systems, I have symlinks throughout the system for various purposes, and on both systems, symbolic links were removed as part of the installation.
Not all symbolic links were removed. Symbolic links in the root seem to be untouched. Additionally, some symbolic links in folders not created by Windows were untouched e. Neither was any indication left of which symlinks were removed.
Therefore, I'm left to just see what breaks, track it down, and replace the symlinks. Is this by design? If so, it would be nice for Windows to at least inform the user that they will be deleted and report on what symlinks are affected even a text file on the desktop indicating "deleted symlinks" with the location and target.
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The msysgit developers are not known for charity It won't UAC prompt. It will fail, always. Only two ways it works: Literally as the Administrator user RunAs Verb , or a non-admin User with group policy change. Junctions should be the default and should be recognized by all tools.
The 'security risk' is that symlinks on Windows can 'redirect' SMB shares. This is a pain and cruel. Announced Dec , Symlinks in Windows 10 is no longer an Administrator action. Short answer: They are now supported nicely, if you can enable developer mode.
The availability and use of symlinks is a big deal to modern developers: Many popular development tools like git and package managers like npm recognize and persist symlinks when creating repos or packages, respectively. Orangutech Orangutech 1 1 gold badge 9 9 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. Other than ntrights. In the end, I chose this approach to create a symlink-out folder and create the symbolic links to where the original file used to be. The other approach didn't work even after I changed.
Only the symbolic link file was saved to the repo and not the data. Also had problems with folder timestamps on the symbolic link so git bash never saw when a file changed within the folder. Eggs what you might have been seeing, I guess, is that the link was within the repo, and so git saved it, simples.
The problem though is that the target was outside of the repo, and git does not follow the link to the target data. On linux you have a type of link that would work for this, it's basically let's you have two paths to the same data stored on disk; I've a feeling newish windows can do this now. Either way though, I still don't think it's going to do what people want. However, sometimes this is not an option.
I have a repository with git-annex an all its architecture works because of symbolic links. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Brian White Brian White 8, 2 2 gold badges 38 38 silver badges 64 64 bronze badges. Cygwin official docs discourage usage of winsymlinks:native.
With "Developer mode" seems you no longer need to run with elevated privileges in you are in Windows I just tried with Git 2. Oh, boy. That was unexpected to me. Mobaxterm does NOT do this. Instead they both create something that their stat command actually recognizes as "symbolic link".
See MS Docs cmd. Quazistax Quazistax 71 2 2 silver badges 3 3 bronze badges. An undocumented answer is really not much use when there are already such lengthy and verbose answers present. Be very careful with Windows Explorer and junctions; it doesn't differentiate junctions from the base location and a delete will recurse into the target and delete it's contents, whereas the delete of a symlink will just remove the symlink.
Just a trap for the unwary. Actually, just tested this on the latest of Windows7, and it no longer does it, so handling of junctions has been improved sometime in the last few years. One simple trick we use is to just call git add --all twice in a row. The second add traverses the link correctly and undoes the delete by restoring the files.
Mike Panoff Mike Panoff 31 4 4 bronze badges. Here's a powershell script to replace unix symlinks with windows This fixes Permission denied errors you might get when there are git symlinks being used on repositories that you share in both POSIX usually the host and Windows VM. This is not an issue if you are checking out the same repository separately in each platform.
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