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| author | Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> | 2025-12-17 14:18:45 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2025-12-18 08:18:14 +0900 |
| commit | eae7c16c3db2e746dd720c4e9ad7c1724d372b07 (patch) | |
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| parent | be6ac3510708da0d662f97783ccaca0794a34593 (diff) | |
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t6423: introduce Windows-specific handling for symlinking to /dev/null
The device `/dev/null` does not exist on Windows, it's called `NUL`
there. Calling `ln -s /dev/null my-symlink` in a symlink-enabled MSYS2
Bash will therefore literally link to a file or directory called `null`
that is supposed to be in the current drive's top-level `dev` directory.
Which typically does not exist.
The test, however, really wants the created symbolic link to point to
the NUL device. Let's instead use the `mklink` utility on Windows to
perform that job, and keep using `ln -s /dev/null <target>` on
non-Windows platforms.
While at it, add the missing `SYMLINKS` prereq because this test _still_
would not pass on Windows before support for symbolic links is
upstreamed from Git for Windows.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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