It seems like it is possible to achieve this now on later versions of Windows (7 and above).

The mklink tool creates a symlink that works on windows.

There would be some work required so that a linux symlink and a windows symlink are considered the same, a user has recommend 'git update-index --assume-unchanged' for this.

There is a good write up of someone using this approach on vanilla git here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5917249/git-symlinks-in-windows

> I think that with adjusted unlocked branches being used by default on
> windows, instead of the old direct mode with its limitations, I don't
> want to delve into the arcanea of windows's 57 different kinds of
> symlink equivilants. So, [[done]] --[[Joey]]
