From 2d86e984b779d8ee90d8bf6031bb08285d89e549 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 17:49:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] mingw: make readlink() independent of core.symlinks

Regardless whether we think we are able to create symbolic links, we
should always read them.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/958

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 compat/mingw.c | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index 3f66497ae6..996cff5d71 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -2643,12 +2643,6 @@ int readlink(const char *path, char *buf, size_t bufsiz)
 	char tmpbuf[MAX_LONG_PATH];
 	int len;
 
-	/* fail if symlinks are disabled */
-	if (!has_symlinks) {
-		errno = ENOSYS;
-		return -1;
-	}
-
 	if (xutftowcs_long_path(wpath, path) < 0)
 		return -1;