From 50a19fcdef271a74eb055f6996a425fc0c01d81f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 01:34:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Dynamically detect if Windows supports symbolic links

To get symlink support you typically need to run as administrator.

Change-Id: I394ea75bc2f250c62f860e537a0af9e6380b3b38
Signed-off-by: Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn@sap.com>
---
 .../org/eclipse/jgit/util/FS_Win32_Java7.java | 26 ++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit.java7/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FS_Win32_Java7.java b/org.eclipse.jgit.java7/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FS_Win32_Java7.java
index b01536224..98df7c85c 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit.java7/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FS_Win32_Java7.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit.java7/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/FS_Win32_Java7.java
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ import java.io.IOException;
  */
 public class FS_Win32_Java7 extends FS_Win32 {
 
+	private volatile Boolean supportSymlinks;
+
 	FS_Win32_Java7(FS src) {
 		super(src);
 	}
@@ -65,7 +67,29 @@ public class FS_Win32_Java7 extends FS_Win32 {
 
 	@Override
 	public boolean supportsSymlinks() {
-		return true;
+		if (supportSymlinks == null)
+			detectSymlinkSupport();
+		return Boolean.TRUE.equals(supportSymlinks);
+	}
+
+	private void detectSymlinkSupport() {
+		File tempFile = null;
+		try {
+			tempFile = File.createTempFile("tempsymlinktarget", ""); //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$
+			File linkName = new File(tempFile.getParentFile(), "tempsymlink"); //$NON-NLS-1$
+			FileUtil.createSymLink(linkName, tempFile.getPath());
+			supportSymlinks = Boolean.TRUE;
+			linkName.delete();
+		} catch (IOException e) {
+			supportSymlinks = Boolean.FALSE;
+		} finally {
+			if (tempFile != null)
+				try {
+					FileUtils.delete(tempFile);
+				} catch (IOException e) {
+					throw new RuntimeException(e); // panic
+				}
+		}
 	}
 
 	@Override