Subject: [PATCH 00/18] Support symbolic links on Windows

From: "Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 14:08:37 +0000

This finally upstreams Git for Windows' support for Windows' branch of
symbolic links, which has been maturing since 2015. It is based off of
js/prep-symlink-windows.

Bill Zissimopoulos (1):
  mingw: compute the correct size for symlinks in `mingw_lstat()`

Johannes Schindelin (3):
  mingw: try to create symlinks without elevated permissions
  mingw: emulate `stat()` a little more faithfully
  mingw: special-case index entries for symlinks with buggy size

Karsten Blees (14):
  mingw: don't call `GetFileAttributes()` twice in `mingw_lstat()`
  mingw: implement `stat()` with symlink support
  mingw: drop the separate `do_lstat()` function
  mingw: let `mingw_lstat()` error early upon problems with reparse
    points
  mingw: teach dirent about symlinks
  mingw: factor out the retry logic
  mingw: change default of `core.symlinks` to false
  mingw: add symlink-specific error codes
  mingw: handle symlinks to directories in `mingw_unlink()`
  mingw: support renaming symlinks
  mingw: allow `mingw_chdir()` to change to symlink-resolved directories
  mingw: implement `readlink()`
  mingw: implement basic `symlink()` functionality (file symlinks only)
  mingw: add support for symlinks to directories

 compat/mingw-posix.h  |   6 +-
 compat/mingw.c        | 635 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 compat/win32.h        |   6 +-
 compat/win32/dirent.c |   5 +-
 read-cache.c          |  11 +
 5 files changed, 507 insertions(+), 156 deletions(-)

base-commit: 6f6fe02f5fe587ec9788f8a5a34281949d7b2ca1
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-2018%2Fdscho%2Fsymlinks-next-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-2018/dscho/symlinks-next-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/2018
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