From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.2 required=3.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_12_24, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F87FC433E1 for ; Fri, 29 May 2020 14:09:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E021208B8 for ; Fri, 29 May 2020 14:09:11 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=gmx.net header.i=@gmx.net header.b="YgNPnP+H" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726886AbgE2OJI (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2020 10:09:08 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.18]:59081 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726476AbgE2OJH (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2020 10:09:07 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=gmx.net; s=badeba3b8450; t=1590761346; bh=L/cAzKrJuN+H+KY9ULlkUVxxSNz8i8E168Jgq9oUyI4=; h=X-UI-Sender-Class:Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References; b=YgNPnP+HtojM93vLiSHMJfu9BcpWEgbWJuGDop0p5K+JcmvY7It2/UKI6ZbQq4YTA 7i50vtqOJ25Jws1dk4mS4RL73GTln0jZw+/s6BEWqBbd3Ip+u8sjnwIF/D3nBhMiia +dQyZS4xfXCzwu6GiQ25pUmqMMWpNP1s8WQFszAg= X-UI-Sender-Class: 01bb95c1-4bf8-414a-932a-4f6e2808ef9c Received: from [172.23.211.123] ([89.1.214.207]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx005 [212.227.17.190]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1MCbEf-1jnmFN0Azr-009f1V; Fri, 29 May 2020 16:09:06 +0200 Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 23:35:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Johannes Schindelin X-X-Sender: virtualbox@gitforwindows.org To: git-for-windows@googlegroups.com, git@vger.kernel.org, git-packagers@googlegroups.com Subject: symbolic links in Git for Windows v2.27.0, was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.27.0-rc2 In-Reply-To: <20200526204539.6181-1-johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Message-ID: References: <20200526204539.6181-1-johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.1 (DEB 209 2017-03-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:n/xHygcdrjSaifeAfLqWaPDPBJdoQD54YvJbbvW7R887pK2ZXJ0 ymLuvOJzO8C8S3aNMuoE8yQ/Pz8iJmDzlzmV+qdqA2MsgJe7IT+eAohya4DEmzfFliTaV+8 bIMaaey++7gwzKfCiC+8kRWHC6Sviy23WNph0T/+68MygapwlNuYvDn+PS0SQ3lenM9CrFJ V9stVwkuS+O+WEgdCrShA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:ITO9YMDQRyw=:UiFvRhI8tP6ghUF0qG6rPR ElKAfMS1QbdgcPB4OMaRAa5JhUiTCmbE2gq0CakzKGJOuErAQdzSKcXn8i/abC1xLafB5k3Th 8Dl78sl5zwtJd76AoEy3h+ZY5gIreZnLjcYA21oEItfZuHpBV9yINQ0DYJ8upUP7A8X/WkQNk KPmB9ololYs+2xSPNF1kodKmhDE4r7K0eQbCfB/qRiFDbvyhdcaaG7pS7MF3tNhbSN8x8TGRi AVJgcId8KsK9MDZi+QcaMfQ6ByVjVZN+u/ga7LYIetLzNp2XcXzN95PYnFS9EQ1JPuhIt6gJ6 y9dPMZUDqOvD6FKdCwPZg1FXm17BiwKovRlwhhNDc8huMVrDgBZkU8rFG2NtLLelq8VlDRHbN 3euRghCiU+I01NIEwnVLKzRQVLtDBY1S2FP8ENfKgVE3kt+je7z4RPCY8zrW3hXvZxVg6lLvz zN+UNEGmyYRhNvUZ0VezQkSZ5qGHSExKqFlwftBepVJ0tIihsxUvpXLqiPSoA9/BxNwgXBXum 0ubnTUacnZ9NqjSmkH1BS/ZNMByV04kshl8V/yAVB4SngnGhPeb77LBimy5Sz1rf9B/u4Z13o 9S6EXwMfkn+ooOGA79QAkN1gXZ64c91G/+rwMx4kp+Yerl8uK25qGEojDbzi4etiFtjjCwest OVz6EyuhoZJZ7sTPbgLIxmFWoKZxmbyNiiGzmT+WF+qJ57Qg3RBuMTu3EKtToNqrVgX17nsa8 WaWCzyDDtzNNUmmDmCQf2JkQCx0ttb3qV4/PaI5PhHyTgDkyKI3fblh/ZqWBzeBMUqYLM1LMc Kgy+0u5oCZ7xghVmhV1Lr4acyMW+XFsKAsSLPt7F2EH1NcSf82Bg5/gC1K+y0UZ71TUivVs+l Ya7wiODTAcf2F0MeMjGYBLs4OfYZMfoVEIteDTDFzlkOTgqdlJbNn31SAxEyQhmn2x/OilXkI GOYwzuVlFUJwpdL+QYfkqeQi6OMpj4UN1sX27u8inwLydxzmoWJKxlBka2Ke0ojje1L7UzPXT lod7D+XwsaHzboIR5QCbbVJ/9MSVSv6ZQ50V9DUbn9jKAwJeh7+jx8AujDf8HmECXEem+r6FR r4bVNDUX52RkjX5rB90Vbhtm2u/kx2cW4Mi0y2PJey6jCfVsdDGuVyPCljMFgHYRrf+xqL5KA mra2wzRxJ/Wq+HDm/a8XapISW2lXO0c0DANkUpT+QUvpiL8mZvH3dSN/CDcfYGuOsm00gdgDN pbDEy1z55H38ofUdo Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Dear Git users, On Tue, 26 May 2020, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > I hereby announce that Git for Windows 2.27.0-rc2 is available from: > > https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.27.0-rc2.wind= ows.1 Git for Windows v2.27.0 will be out on Tuesday (or even on Monday if Git v2.27.0 is released early enough). It has a (last-minute) bug fix where the length of symbolic links that is recorded in the Git index is the _actual_ length of the link target, so that `git status` agrees between Git for Windows and WSL Git. Unfortunately, that means that every existing checkout that contains symbolic links tracked by Git will report them as changed until `git add ` (or `git add -u`) is called. In cases where users use both Git Bash and another version of Git, this might cause the problem where one of them will always report the symbolic links as modified in `git status`, but not in `git diff`. Sorry about the late heads-up, I only just realized that this might pose a problem. Granted, symbolic links are not all _that_ common on Windows. Ciao, Johannes