Re: Symlinks on Windows

2015-01-28 Thread MarcM
only solution on Windows is to do some post-processing. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5917249/git-symlinks-in-windows -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Symlinks-on-Windows-tp171172p171180.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: Symlinks on Windows

2015-01-28 Thread Noeck
> AFAIK GIT doesn't handle symlinks at all. It won't override them, but if > you clone the repo, there should be copies of the file. I just checked that (under Linux) and git handles links: I committed a symbolic link and it appears on github as such and if I clone the repo again, it is again a l

Re: Symlinks on Windows

2015-01-28 Thread Nick Payne
On 28/01/2015 22:09, Urs Liska wrote: If I create a Git repository on Linux (or Mac) and use symlinks in it (if it matters: they point to other places within the repo), how would they turn out for a user who clones that repostory on Windows? Say I have the following / - entry - qualifying

Re: Symlinks on Windows

2015-01-28 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Urs, AFAIK GIT doesn't handle symlinks at all. It won't override them, but if you clone the repo, there should be copies of the file. Best, Jan-Peter P.S.: ... and now for something completely different ... I am rebuilding the edittion-engraver from scratch to allow suggested modifications -

Symlinks on Windows

2015-01-28 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, just a (hopefully) little question: If I create a Git repository on Linux (or Mac) and use symlinks in it (if it matters: they point to other places within the repo), how would they turn out for a user who clones that repostory on Windows? Say I have the following / - entry - qual