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@ -6,12 +6,19 @@ Apparently new versions of Windows have something very like symlinks.
(Or really, 3 or so things not entirely unlike symlinks and all different.)
Stackoverflow has some details.
NTFS supports symbolic links two different ways: an [[!wikipedia NTFS symbolic link]] and an [[!wikipedia NTFS_junction_point]]. The former seems like the closest analogue to POSIX symlinks.
Make git use them, as it (apparently) does not yet.
(What **does** git do on Windows when it clones a repo with symlinks?)
Currently, on Windows, git checks out symlinks as files containing the symlink
target as their contents.
## POSIX
Lots of ifdefs and pain to deal with POSIX calls in the code base.
Or I could try to use Cywin.
Or I could try to use Cygwin.
## Deeper system integration
[NTFS Reparse Points](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365503%28v=VS.85%29.aspx) allow a program to define how the OS will interpret a file or directory in arbitrary ways. This requires writing a file system filter.