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On Windows, symbolic links have a type: a "file symlink" must point at a file, and a "directory symlink" must point at a directory. If the type of symlink does not match its target, it doesn't work. Git does not record the type of symlink in the index or in a tree. On checkout it'll guess the type, which only works if the target exists at the time the symlink is created. This may often not be the case, for example when the link points at a directory inside a submodule. By specifying `symlink=file` or `symlink=dir` the user can specify what type of symlink Git should create, so Git doesn't have to rely on unreliable heuristics. Signed-off-by: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>