Win32: change default of 'core.symlinks' to false

Symlinks on Windows don't work the same way as on Unix systems. E.g. there
are different types of symlinks for directories and files, creating
symlinks requires administrative privileges etc.

By default, disable symlink support on Windows. I.e. users explicitly have
to enable it with 'git config [--system|--global] core.symlinks true'.

The test suite ignores system / global config files. Allow testing *with*
symlink support by checking if native symlinks are enabled in MSys2 (via
'MSYS=winsymlinks:nativestrict').

Reminder: This would need to be changed if / when we find a way to run the
test suite in a non-MSys-based shell (e.g. dash).

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <[email protected]>

Author: kblees

compat/mingw.c

@@ -2910,6 +2910,15 @@ static void setup_windows_environment(void)
 
 	if (!getenv("LC_ALL") && !getenv("LC_CTYPE") && !getenv("LANG"))
 		setenv("LC_CTYPE", "C.UTF-8", 1);
+
+	/*
+	 * Change 'core.symlinks' default to false, unless native symlinks are
+	 * enabled in MSys2 (via 'MSYS=winsymlinks:nativestrict'). Thus we can
+	 * run the test suite (which doesn't obey config files) with or without
+	 * symlink support.
+	 */
+	if (!(tmp = getenv("MSYS")) || !strstr(tmp, "winsymlinks:nativestrict"))
+		has_symlinks = 0;
 }
 
 int is_valid_win32_path(const char *path, int allow_literal_nul)