From 8cd1dc7d0a9818d3c95d3ca3affb03cbb599ece5 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 d46e83ba51..4b4f78e864 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -2600,12 +2600,6 @@ 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;