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Add troubleshooting page, closes #137

Dan Yeaw 2018-01-20 21:44:37 -05:00
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# 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