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winsymlinks: add a mode preferring native symlinks with a deepcopy fa…
…llback When native symlinks are available, it is a shame to create deep copies by default. However, since there are many scenarios where symlinks are not available (e.g. when running on FAT, or on older Windows versions, or when Developer Mode is not enabled), we've got to have a fallback. In the regular Cygwin world, it is legitimate to fall back to WSL symlinks and/or to the system file emulation (where a file is created that is marked with the "system" attribute and with content that adheres to a specific, magic form that is recognized specifically by the Cygwin runtime). However, in the world of MSYS2, the assumption is that the result of the operation should be as interoperable with regular Win32 programs as possible. Hence the default to "deepcopy". As a "best of both worlds" mode, let's implement one that tries to create native symlinks by default, and if that fails, uses the "deepcopy" method as a fallback. This addresses #113. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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