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In 1e64d18 (mingw: do resolve symlinks in `getcwd()`) a problem was introduced that causes git for Windows to stop working with certain mapped network drives (in particular, drives that are mapped to locations with long path names). Error message was "fatal: Unable to read current working directory: No such file or directory". Present change fixes this issue as discussed in #2480 Signed-off-by: Bjoern Mueller <[email protected]>
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In 1e64d18 (mingw: do resolve symlinks in
getcwd()) a problem wasintroduced that causes git for Windows to stop working with certain
mapped network drives (in particular, drives that are mapped to
locations with long path names). Error message was "fatal: Unable to
read current working directory: No such file or directory". Present
change fixes this issue as discussed in
#2480
Signed-off-by: Bjoern Mueller [email protected]
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