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What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
Using git "difftool --dir-diff" on windows on a lfs repository

What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
I expected it to call the configured tool with no errors

What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
I get the error
error: could not symlink 'D:/xxxx/KUS.a2l' to 'C:\xxxx/KUS.a2l': Function not implemented

To fix this I need to call difftool with "--no-symlinks" but the documentation mentions that "--no-symlinks" is the default on windows. Well, it clearly isn't.

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[System Info]
git version:
git version 2.52.0.windows.1
cpu: x86_64
built from commit: 2912d8e9b8253723974b7baf1c890273b1a1c5bd
sizeof-long: 4
sizeof-size_t: 8
shell-path: D:/git-sdk-64-build-installers/usr/bin/sh
rust: disabled
feature: fsmonitor--daemon
libcurl: 8.17.0
OpenSSL: OpenSSL 3.5.4 30 Sep 2025
zlib: 1.3.1
SHA-1: SHA1_DC
SHA-256: SHA256_BLK
default-ref-format: files
default-hash: sha1
uname: Windows 10.0 26100 
compiler info: gnuc: 15.2
libc info: no libc information available
$SHELL (typically, interactive shell): <unset>


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