Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Last preparations before upstreaming Git for Windows' symlink support

From: Patrick Steinhardt <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:35:41 +0100

On Fri, Jan 09, 2026 at 08:05:04PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, this version looks good to me based on the range-diff.

Patrick