From 88802be3fe3013515b9e5daa0d380ebdd61283e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "http://joeyh.name/" Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 20:56:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added a comment --- ...comment_1_352d460acd5500587e679d934180eee4._comment | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/forum/Previous_versions_in_direct_mode__63__/comment_1_352d460acd5500587e679d934180eee4._comment diff --git a/doc/forum/Previous_versions_in_direct_mode__63__/comment_1_352d460acd5500587e679d934180eee4._comment b/doc/forum/Previous_versions_in_direct_mode__63__/comment_1_352d460acd5500587e679d934180eee4._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b81e6c85e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Previous_versions_in_direct_mode__63__/comment_1_352d460acd5500587e679d934180eee4._comment @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://joeyh.name/" + ip="209.250.56.227" + subject="comment 1" + date="2013-12-24T20:56:00Z" + content=""" +git-annex for windows is targeting being used with msysgit, and msysgit does not seem to support symlinks. That's one good reason. Since cywin's git does support symlinks, it might be possible to get git-annex to use it and support indirect mode. + +Doing anything about this is probably \"patches accepted\" territory for me. I'm mostly interested in porting git-annex to Windows so it can be used on computers owned by non-technical users, to interoperate with git-annex on more capable operating systems. +"""]]