[PATCH RFC] dirstate: ignore symlinks when fs cannot handle them (issue1888)

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On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Martin Geisler <mg at aragost.com> wrote:
>> Windows Vista and 7 (NTFS file system) should support symbolic links...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link

> Interesting -- I only thought NTFS supported some kind of hard links
> called junction points, which I know we already use for local clones.

That was older, yeah, but more recently file symlinks were indeed added.