{"version":"2.1.233","anchor":"the-windows-cygwin-symlink-permission-pass-is-gone","canonical_anchor":"the-windows-cygwin-symlink-permission-pass-is-gone","heading":"The Windows Cygwin-symlink permission pass is gone","tier":"notice","area":"Windows","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.233\/e\/the-windows-cygwin-symlink-permission-pass-is-gone","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.233","markdown":"### The Windows Cygwin-symlink permission pass is gone\n\nWindows and Git Bash users should stop seeing unexplained approval prompts on redirects and approved commands.\n\n**What**\n\nThe extra Windows and Git Bash pass over Bash permissions has been removed entirely, so redirecting commands and previously approved shell commands should stop producing unexplained approval prompts on Windows.\n\n**Details**\n\n- Gone with it: the byte-exact allow plumbing it used, the redirection-target patterns, and the heuristics for working directories in compound `cd` commands.\n- The prompt it produced, including the Cygwin symlink message, was present in v2.1.232 and does not occur anywhere in this build.\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`Path traverses a Cygwin-emulated symlink (Git Bash follows it, Node does not) \u2014 manual approval required`\n\n- Area: Windows\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 4\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5"}