Re: git 0.99.7b doesn't build on Cygwin

Davide Libenzi [off-list ref] writes:

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

Making really really core part usable on Windows would not need
this, but there is another thing: .git/HEAD symlink.

Starting from Win2k, they *finally* added:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/createhardlink.asp

It talks about "a hard link".  Can we readlink it?

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Davide Libenzi [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

Making really really core part usable on Windows would not need
this, but there is another thing: .git/HEAD symlink.

Starting from Win2k, they *finally* added:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/createhardlink.asp

It talks about "a hard link".  Can we readlink it?

Nope. It's an hardlink (ala link(2)).


- Davide