How to make a branch on Windows of a repository containing symlink?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net>
> Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:44:05 +0200
> 
> > 1- just skip them
> > 2- make Windows symlink-like things
> > 3- and I guess another is to write a plain file with the contents of the link
> 
> I guess 99% of windows users will be happy with either 1 or 3.

My vote is for 3.  That way, most packages will build (whatever
``build'' means in each package's context) seamlessly and correctly.
With one, you could face failures because the files that are expected
are not found.