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This patch implements git support for NTFS symbolic link type reparse points. * There is a specific privelege required to create symbolic links that is not generally associated with a standard user. This part is up to the user to worry about. * NTFS reparse points differentiate between file and directory links. This patch assumes file links are meant. (A separate patch will develop this further). * This patch is not intended to implement symbolic links in the shell utilities. This means that as of when this was written, bash and gnu utilities do not handle them. * Windows chdir behaves differently to *nix, and we need to unravel symbolic links for various operations to work as expected. * For efficiency, as much as possible of the calls are done with wchar_t, before being converted to utf-8. This is as much about avoiding dealing with windows default encoding as anything else. * resolve_symlink needed to be replaced in lockfile.c since there are some issues with recognising absolute paths, as well as for efficiency with wchar_t. This work was based on a combination of patches developed by the following people: original-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> original-by: Thorvald Natvig <slicer@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Michael Geddes <michael@frog.wheelycreek.net>