[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="https://id.koumbit.net/anarcat"
 subject="comment 16"
 date="2015-02-17T05:22:00Z"
 content="""
i believe this is [answered here](https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/windows_support/#comment-e72601243c643d7821e68d3a04489fcb). TLDR; basically NTFS + symlink works in Linux, but not in Windows/Cygwin, which git-annex seems to be using. YMMV.
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