X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4EA6FCF4.7090908@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:16:20 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110928 Fedora/3.1.15-1.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Mnenhy/0.8.4 Thunderbird/3.1.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Symbilic links support References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 10/25/2011 11:48 AM, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote: > By default git checkout files created as symbolic links on linux > system as symbolic links. Under windows it does not work. > > I expect on cygwin machines after git checkout I will get normal links > can be readed as 'ls -al' command. But they actually appears as normal > files. Does adding this to your ~/.gitconfig help? [core] filemode = true If so, we need to push back on the upstream git folks to tell them that their defaults on cygwin are wrong, for any repository that wants to use symlinks. Upstream git is playing nasty tricks of trying to go behind cygwin's back, and use native windows functions instead of stat() for speed, but as a result of those games, they break symlink support. I guess I should look into packaging the latest upstream git soon, anyways, and as part of that packaging, I'll see if I can tweak the default to avoid the brain-dead upstream "optimization", at least for out-of-the-box configuration, if that does indeed fix your problem. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple