Description
Contrary to your documentation ala making symlinks
core.symlinks=true does not work for me
but setting the environment variable
enable MSYS=winsymlinks:nativestrict does work.
In my HOME directory:
$ touch a
$ ln -s a b
$ ls -l a b
-rw-r--r-- 1 aab 197121 0 Sep 16 21:19 a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 aab 197121 1 Sep 16 21:19 b -> a
$ rm a b
The Command Prompt dir a b agrees with the above. See "interesting things" below.
Setup
- Which version of Git for Windows are you using? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?
$ git --version --build-options
git version 2.18.0.windows.1
cpu: x86_64
built from commit: cd1a74f
sizeof-long: 4
- Which version of Windows are you running? Vista, 7, 8, 10? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.285]
- What options did you set as part of the installation? Or did you choose the
defaults?
Don't remember
** insert your machine's response here **
$ cat /etc/install-options.txt
Editor Option: VIM
Path Option: Cmd
SSH Option: OpenSSH
CURL Option: OpenSSL
CRLF Option: CRLFAlways
Bash Terminal Option: MinTTY
Performance Tweaks FSCache: Enabled
Use Credential Manager: Enabled
Enable Symlinks: Enabled
- Any other interesting things about your environment that might be related
to the issue you're seeing?
I disabled the Git for Windows core.symlinks=true option because it was not working. Just for grins, I did
export MSYS=winsymlinks:nativestrict
and voila no problems with real symlinks.
For me the ONLY way to get real symlinks on the entire system for any condition REQUIRES enabling
settings -> Update & Security -> For Developers -> Developer Mode
Unfortunately, this requires a sysadmin to do so. The account that I normally use does have admin privileges enabled. I also created a vanilla user that has a minimal set of privileges. I have no problems making symlinks with either account.
FWIW - As a test, removed all policy permissions and was still able to make symlinks.
-
Which terminal/shell are you running Git from? e.g Bash/CMD/PowerShell/othe
bash -
What commands did you run to trigger this issue? If you can provide a
Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example
this will help us understand the issue.
** insert your commands here **
See short example in first section above. Without MSYS, b is a copy of a. core.symlinks=true has no effect. Without `Developer Mode" enabled, no real symlinks can be made,
- What did you expect to occur after running these commands?
n/a - What actually happened instead?
n/a