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  • Cygwin official docs discourage usage of winsymlinks:native. With "Developer mode" seems you no longer need to run with elevated privileges in you are in Windows 10. Commented Nov 15, 2020 at 13:23
  • this didn't help me, but export MSYS=winsymlinks:nativestrict did Commented Oct 17, 2021 at 9:48
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    @JerryGreen yes, the environment variables CYGWIN and MSYS are only looked at by their respective tools; if you're running Git-for-Windows (built with MSys2) then setting CYGWIN won't matter. The good news is that MSys was forked from Cygwin so the values of those environment variables are often the same or at least overlapping. Commented Mar 29, 2023 at 21:22