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authorGravatar josh <josh@web>2012-05-31 20:02:48 +0000
committerGravatar admin <admin@branchable.com>2012-05-31 20:02:48 +0000
commit263ee1d067c8ef7361ecdb096ee227011f8d25dd (patch)
tree7dcfbaeffc6cdc4c4d68a4e0b0dd56f0990e87b2
parent2941d30bda3adc7420dd8f800192d7154e960bc2 (diff)
Add explanation of how git on Windows handles symlinks.
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@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ Stackoverflow has some details.
Make git use them, as it (apparently) does not yet.
-(What **does** git do on Windows when it clones a repo with symlinks?)
+Currently, on Windows, git checks out symlinks as files containing the symlink
+target as their contents.
## POSIX