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Subject:	Re: Copying of symbolic links not working as expected
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Subject: Re: Copying of symbolic links not working as expected


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On 21.04.2019 14:45, Matt D. wrote:
>=20
> I had the same problem while trying to tar and untar:
>=20
> tar: aosp/source/system/vold/.git/shallow: Cannot create symlink to=20
> =E2=80=98../../../.repo/projects/system/vold.git/shallow=E2=80=99: No suc=
h file or directory

My current workaround for *this* particular problem is to catch the "Cannot
create symlink" message and attempt to re-run tar multiple times until the
message is no longer outputted or the script runs out of attempts. This wor=
ks
OK, unless the symlink graph is maliciously gnarly.

I doubt that this will be fixed anytime soon, it's a property of the NTFS, =
and
you should have known what you were signing on for when you enabled
winsymlinks:nativestrict (i'm assuming that you did; otherwise you shouldn't
have been getting these errors).


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