Windows can't handle symlinks in a sane way because they're a source of privilege escalation exploits on Windows. So git repos with symlinks in the require a s

Windows can't handle symlinks in a sane way because they're a source of privilege escalation exploits on Windows. So git repos with symlinks in the require a security degradation to use them natively. Performance also still sucks, although the VFS stuff in the Microsoft fork kinda helps I guess.