Re: MinGW port updated to GIT 1.5.0

From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: 2007-02-16 06:14:17
Hi,

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> However, I am not so sure if we can do better to help Windows people.  
> They have what they call "ShortCut", which to me feels like what they 
> use for what symlinks are used for.  I do not know if it is possible (I 
> do not even know doing so would make life easier for Windows people) but 
> perhaps a symlink can be "checked out" as a ShortCut?

This is exactly what Cygwin does. They revers-engineered the format of 
.lnk files.

I am not so sure if it is worth the effort, though, since .lnk files are 
handled as files even from Windows. At some point we have to admit that 
Windows does not love symlinks, and we don't love Windows.

Ciao,
Dscho

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