commit 788e9626ccefa2e40aab58b67a1487e2a26b8225
author Renaud Paquay <rpaquay@google.com> Fri Jan 27 11:41:12 2017 -0800
committer Renaud Paquay <rpaquay@google.com> Thu Aug 31 13:49:59 2017 -0700
tree ba39c11ae8331c87303311062d626ce2f706a0c7
parent cd892a38a61e2cb5975189a8f6e61fe1cd72d2c1

Provide more specific error message for symlinks errors on Windows

Change-Id: Ia6099beef37ae6b6143eba243fe7fbe02b74a9bb

project.py

diff --git a/project.py b/project.py
index 338ce93..e1a844e 100644
--- a/project.py
+++ b/project.py
@@ -2400,7 +2400,7 @@
             os.path.relpath(stock_hook, os.path.dirname(dst)), dst)
       except OSError as e:
         if e.errno == errno.EPERM:
-          raise GitError('filesystem must support symlinks')
+          raise GitError(self._get_symlink_error_message())
         else:
           raise
 
@@ -2514,7 +2514,7 @@
 
       except OSError as e:
         if e.errno == errno.EPERM:
-          raise DownloadError('filesystem must support symlinks')
+          raise DownloadError(self._get_symlink_error_message())
         else:
           raise
 
@@ -2555,6 +2555,14 @@
         platform_utils.rmtree(dotgit)
       raise
 
+  def _get_symlink_error_message(self):
+    if platform_utils.isWindows():
+      return ('Unable to create symbolic link. Please re-run the command as '
+              'Administrator, or see '
+              'https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/Symbolic-Links '
+              'for other options.')
+    return 'filesystem must support symlinks'
+
   def _gitdir_path(self, path):
     return platform_utils.realpath(os.path.join(self.gitdir, path))