D7233: hghave: disallow symlinks on Windows

mharbison72 (Matt Harbison) phabricator at mercurial-scm.org
Tue Nov 5 23:05:33 EST 2019


mharbison72 added a comment.


  In D7233#106279 <https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D7233#106279>, @indygreg wrote:
  
  > I think symlinks on Windows are too fragile to even consider enabling. So I'm fine leaving them disabled on Windows indefinitely.
  
  Out of curiosity, what's fragile about them?  I've not used them, and am fine with leaving them off too, especially while it requires admin or developer mode.  That seems too weird that they could be created in one terminal and not another potentially.  And I wonder if that would cause issues with the cached marker indicating that the filesystem supports symlinks.

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