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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf: let's disable symlinks on Windows
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 10:09:14 +0200 (CEST)
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Hi Junio,

On Tue, 10 May 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > In Git for Windows' SDK, Git's source code is always checked out
> > with symlinks disabled. The reason is that POSIX symlinks have no
> > accurate equivalent on Windows [*1*]. More precisely, though, it is
> > not just Git's source code but *all* source code that is checked
> > out with symlinks disabled: core.symlinks is set to false in the
> > system-wide gitconfig.
> >
> > Since the perf tests are run with the system-wide gitconfig *disabled*,
> > we have to make sure that the Git repository is initialized correctly
> > by configuring core.symlinks explicitly.
> 
> Is MINGW the right prerequisite to use here, or is SIMLINKS more
> appropriate?

Oh, you're absolutely correct! It has nothing to do with MINGW itself, of
course.

Fixed in v2,
Dscho