Support symbolic links on Windows#2018

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t9700: accommodate for Windows paths

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apply: symbolic links lack a "trustable executable bit"

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mingw: special-case `open(symlink, O_CREAT | O_EXCL)`

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t0001: handle `diff --no-index` gracefully

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t0301: another fix for Windows compatibility

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t0600: fix incomplete prerequisite for a test case

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t1006: accommodate for symlink support in MSYS2

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t1305: skip symlink tests that do not apply to Windows

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t6423: introduce Windows-specific handling for symlinking to /dev/null

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t7800: work around the MSYS path conversion on Windows

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Merge branch 'js/test-symlink-windows' into js/prep-symlink-windows
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mingw: do resolve symlinks in `getcwd()`

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init: do parse _all_ core.* settings early

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strbuf_readlink(): avoid calling `readlink()` twice in corner-cases

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strbuf_readlink(): support link targets that exceed PATH_MAX

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trim_last_path_component(): avoid hard-coding the directory separator

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Commits on Dec 17, 2025

mingw: don't call `GetFileAttributes()` twice in `mingw_lstat()`

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mingw: implement `stat()` with symlink support

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mingw: drop the separate `do_lstat()` function

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mingw: let `mingw_lstat()` error early upon problems with reparse points

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mingw: teach dirent about symlinks

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mingw: compute the correct size for symlinks in `mingw_lstat()`

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mingw: factor out the retry logic

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mingw: change default of `core.symlinks` to false

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mingw: add symlink-specific error codes

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mingw: handle symlinks to directories in `mingw_unlink()`

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mingw: support renaming symlinks

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mingw: allow `mingw_chdir()` to change to symlink-resolved directories

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mingw: implement `readlink()`

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mingw: implement basic `symlink()` functionality (file symlinks only)

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mingw: add support for symlinks to directories

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mingw: try to create symlinks without elevated permissions
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mingw: emulate `stat()` a little more faithfully
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mingw: special-case index entries for symlinks with buggy size
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