Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]> writes:

> In Git for Windows' SDK, Git's source code is always checked out
> with symlinks disabled. The reason is that POSIX symlinks have no
> accurate equivalent on Windows [*1*]. More precisely, though, it is
> not just Git's source code but *all* source code that is checked
> out with symlinks disabled: core.symlinks is set to false in the
> system-wide gitconfig.
>
> Since the perf tests are run with the system-wide gitconfig *disabled*,
> we have to make sure that the Git repository is initialized correctly
> by configuring core.symlinks explicitly.

Is MINGW the right prerequisite to use here, or is SIMLINKS more
appropriate?

>
> Footnote *1*:
> https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/Symbolic-Links
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
> ---
>  t/perf/perf-lib.sh | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/t/perf/perf-lib.sh b/t/perf/perf-lib.sh
> index 5cf74ed..e9020d0 100644
> --- a/t/perf/perf-lib.sh
> +++ b/t/perf/perf-lib.sh
> @@ -97,6 +97,10 @@ test_perf_create_repo_from () {
>               done &&
>               cd .. &&
>               git init -q &&
> +             if test_have_prereq MINGW
> +             then
> +                     git config core.symlinks false
> +             fi &&
>               mv .git/hooks .git/hooks-disabled 2>/dev/null
>       ) || error "failed to copy repository '$source' to '$repo'"
>  }
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