From b82d34edf8b2eb0ad076bbd7008fff58b3bc154e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Yeaw Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 21:44:37 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add troubleshooting page, closes #137 --- Troubleshooting.md | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Troubleshooting.md diff --git a/Troubleshooting.md b/Troubleshooting.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4b4c0cc --- /dev/null +++ b/Troubleshooting.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +# Troubleshooting + +## Fix links not successfully setup in Git Bash with Git for Windows +Native Windows symlinks are only created on Windows Vista/2008 and later, and only on filesystems supporting reparse points like NTFS. In order to maintain backwards compatibility, users must explicitely requests creating them. This is done by setting the environment variable for MSYS to contain the string winsymlinks:native or winsymlinks:nativestrict. Without this setting, 'ln -s' may copy the file instead of making a link to it. + +In order enable these symbolic links, run git bash as administrator, then: + + export MSYS=winsymlinks:nativestrict + ./install +