<p>This is what happens for me (from the link given):</p>

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<p>This makes e.g. symlinks created under Linux to be created as plain text files that contain the link text under Windows</p>
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<p>When I <code>cat</code> the README.rst file, it just says <code>README</code> with no newline. Ubuntu 15.10, repo on NTFS filesystem shared between Linux and Windows.</p>

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