"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" [off-list ref]
writes:

After preparing Git's test suite for the upcoming support for symlinks on
Windows, this patch series touches up a couple of code paths that might not
seem to be related at first, but need to be adjusted for the symlink support
to work as expected.

This is based on js/test-symlink-windows.

Changes since v1:

 * Fixed Karsten's email address
 * Instead of allowing unlimited symlink target lengths, it is now increased
   from 2*PATH_MAX to 32,767.

Looking good.

Let's wait for a few days to see if others have further input, and
then mark the topic, together with the other windows-symlink topic
that comes on top of this one, for 'next'.

Thanks.