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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] t5002: check if unzip supports symlinks
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 00:52:06 -0800
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Ren=C3=A9 Scharfe wrote:

> Only add a symlink to the repository if both the filesystem and
> unzip support symlinks.  To check the latter, add a ZIP file
> containing a symlink, created like this with InfoZIP zip 3.0:
>
>	$ echo sample text >textfile
>	$ ln -s textfile symlink
>	$ zip -y infozip-symlinks.zip textfile symlink

Hm.  Do some implementations of "unzip" not support symlinks, or is
the problem that some systems build Info-ZIP without the SYMLINKS
option?