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Maybe I missed something on this discussion but symlinks and NTFS are not really related.. They have them yes, how they're handled is different.

• fragmede 4y ago
  How are they not related? If NTFS didn't have symlinks we wouldn't be having this discussion. Critically, the modern standard for removable drives, exFAT does not support symlinks, so you can't count on Windows' support for symlinks if the user is git cloning on a drive that's using exFAT.
  • pjmlp 4y ago
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/mklink https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrati...
    • forgotpwd16 4y ago
      Pointing to this page is meaningless. `mklink /d` only works on NTFS but errors out ("The device does not support symbolic links.") on exFAT. GP acknowledges NTFS has symlinks and remarks that exFAT doesn't.
      • pjmlp 4y ago
        NTFS is the only filesystem that matters for Windows developers.