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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2016-05-10 17:03:27 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2016-05-10 17:03:27 -0400 |
| commit | e98b9839a58cbc7c9fa73a265e9af178e9511837 (patch) | |
| tree | 0fcace1c26444bd262c469d4de7f6dbce08ee072 | |
| parent | d12ca7d63053635e5050d4596897cd47dbba8dcc (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/forum/Wrong_symlink_target_on_usb_drive/comment_7_64e1cdf144a17319831a58b04b22b7ea._comment b/doc/forum/Wrong_symlink_target_on_usb_drive/comment_7_64e1cdf144a17319831a58b04b22b7ea._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a8ef69cc6 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Wrong_symlink_target_on_usb_drive/comment_7_64e1cdf144a17319831a58b04b22b7ea._comment @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 7""" + date="2016-05-10T21:00:06Z" + content=""" +You might be able to unset annex.crippledfilesystem. Or it might cause some +stuff to break. Especially if you access this drive from Windows. + +AFAIK symlinks don't work in Windows; at least git-annex does not know how +to create them on Windows. (Windows has symlink-ish things and git might be +able to use them.) + +The link target is committed to the master branch, so you need to be able +to check out that same branch in other clones and have it point at the +content. So there can only be one link target used, and by default that's +the mixed case one. See [[tuning]] for how to change that. +"""]] |