Re: Uninitialized submodules as symlinks

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 06:10:17PM +0200, Heiko Voigt wrote:

On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 06:17:05PM +0000, David Turner wrote:

quoted

Presently, uninitialized submodules are materialized in the working
tree as empty directories.  We would like to consider having them be
symlinks.  Specifically, we'd like them to be symlinks into a FUSE
filesystem which retrieves files on demand.

How about portability? This feature would only work on Unix like
operating systems. You have to be careful to not break Windows since
they do not have symlinks.

NTFS does have symlinks, but you need admin right to create them though
(unless you change the policy).