[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="Ilya_Shlyakhter"
 avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/1647044369aa7747829c38b9dcc84df0"
 subject="Git for Windows installation -- support for symlinks"
 date="2019-08-08T15:04:07Z"
 content="""
The Git for Windows installer has a setting to turn on support for symlinks, which is not the default.  It says something about symlinks requiring special permissions.  What setting should be used with git-annex?
"""]]
