Files
git/compat
Michael Geddes 82cc187b95 MinGW: Add symlink support for NTFS on windows
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>
2014-06-21 08:43:40 +08:00
..
2009-03-02 18:28:06 -08:00
2010-11-23 16:06:50 -08:00
2013-09-11 11:08:52 -07:00
2011-09-11 14:43:33 -07:00
2013-04-12 12:23:20 -07:00