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docs: windows: mention Developer Mode for symlinks
This is probably better than recommending Administrator access. Change-Id: Ic916f15fe03f7fa1e03c685265b4774bfc1279c2 Reviewed-on: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/git-repo/+/563581 Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@google.com> Reviewed-by: Gavin Mak <gavinmak@google.com> Commit-Queue: Mike Frysinger <vapier@google.com>
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Repo will use symlinks heavily internally.
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On *NIX platforms, this isn't an issue, but Windows makes it a bit difficult.
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There are some documents out there for how to do this, but usually the easiest
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answer is to run your shell as an Administrator and invoke repo/git in that.
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The easiest method to allow users to create symlinks is by enabling
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[Windows Developer Mode](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/advanced-settings/developer-mode).
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The next easiest answer is to run your shell as an Administrator and invoke
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repo/git in that.
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This isn't a great solution, but Windows doesn't make this easy, so here we are.
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