symbolic links in git

[fommil]

I have a repository

https://github.com/ensime/ensime-sbt/

that has a few symbolic links in it, but they are not being translated correctly when checked out in windows, and they look like junk.

Can you please add an option to convert these into copied files, or windows links?

[FeodorFitsner]

How are they configured? How to see them in that repo?

[fommil]

some examples https://github.com/ensime/ensime-sbt/tree/master/src/sbt-test/ensime-sbt/java-flags/project

I'm trying out this hack that I found on stackoverflow, seems legit

  - ps: |
      $symlinks = &git ls-files -s | gawk '/120000/{print $4}'
      foreach ($symlink in $symlinks) {
        write-host $symlink
        &git update-index --assume-unchanged $symlink
      }

[FeodorFitsner]

Nice, thanks for sharing the solution!

[fommil]

doesn't work :-(

https://ci.appveyor.com/project/fommil/ensime-sbt/build/1.0.5

[fommil]

now trying out

  - cmd: git config core.symlinks true
  - cmd: git reset --hard

if that works, I'd recommend setting core.symlinks=true as the default.

[fommil]

that works!

[FeodorFitsner]

Nice!

[fommil]

it works on appveyor, but not on my local Windows 7 VirtualBox image, so I suspect this is not a universal solution.

[gvanrossum]

(According to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5917249/git-symlinks-in-windows you must run this in Administrator mode and use a recent git version. Maybe this helps.)