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Enable symbolic links for Git on Windows 10
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maphew commented Aug 26, 2024

"By default, only Administrators can create symbolic links. The security setting 'Create symbolic links' can be granted at: Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\User Rights Assignment\

Creating a symbolic link requires elevation, but from Windows 10 build 14972, symlinks can be created without needing to elevate the console as administrator - this does however require that you have Developer Mode enabled."

-- https://ss64.com/nt/mklink.html

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James-E-A commented Jul 25, 2025

This defect is being tracked at https://lore.kernel.org/git/681f8e65b4d3cf82a5920840aa8dc88bde812964.1548771561.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/

Hopefully, soon, Git will just "do the right thing" and check out intra-repo directory symlinks as junctions when running in non-Developer mode Windows

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