Re:Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while...
by matheust on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @10:47PM
(#26407530)
Git-for-Windows may turn symlink support on by default under some specific circumstances. As the repo's wiki [1] says:
Short version: there is no exact equivalent for POSIX symlinks on Windows, and the closest thing is unavailable for non-admins by default unless Developer Mode is enabled and a relatively recent Windows 10 version is used. Therefore, symlink emulation support is only turned on by default when that scenario is detected.
Short version: there is no exact equivalent for POSIX symlinks on Windows, and the closest thing is unavailable for non-admins by default unless Developer Mode is enabled and a relatively recent Windows 10 version is used. Therefore, symlink emulation support is only turned on by default when that scenario is detected.
[1]: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/Symbolic-Links