Symbolic links to .git in WSL #11305
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Fixes #11303
Proposed changes
Symbolic links in WSL cannot be accessed from Windows.
This adds some workarounds that makes it possible to open such repos,
that has been created for instance with Google's repo tool.
All access from Windows will fail, only access by WSL native like "wsl git" works.
At least the following do not work:
You can still view information and compare branches though
All issues will likely not be resolved, unless the filesystem in WSL is updated
I doubt linked git repos will be a common use for GE, so there should not be too many complaints.
WSL support in general is a hack.
Test methodology
Manual - basically impossible to test the actual problem
Merge strategy
I agree that the maintainer squash merge this PR (if the commit message is clear).
✒️ I contribute this code under The Developer Certificate of Origin.