Subject: Re: [PATCH] autodetect core.symlinks in git-init

From: Marius Storm-Olsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:23:01 +0200

Junio C Hamano said the following on 31.08.2007 09:22:
> We already autodetect if filemode is reliable on the filesystem
> to deal with VFAT and friends.  Do the same for symbolic link
> support.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
> ---
> +		if (!close(xmkstemp(path)) &&

Just tried this with 4msysgit (so, MinGW on Windows), and with a patch 
for adding xmkstemp() to git-compat-util.h, this patch works perfectly 
on Windows. It's obviously the right thing to do.

Acked-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <[email-masked]>

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.marius