Bazel: Virtual File System For Git got unsupported since the 3.5.0 release

[loshca]

Description of the problem / feature request:

Virtual File System For Git got unsupported since the 3.5.0 release

Bugs: what's the simplest, easiest way to reproduce this bug? Please provide a minimal example if possible.

Make build with Bazel in mounted GVFS repository

What operating system are you running Bazel on?

Windows

What's the output of bazel info release?

release 3.5.0

Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?

No

Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?

I found a broken commit using git bisect: the optimization in the commit resolves symlinks, but file.cc return kUnknownLinkTypefor GVFS.

I made a PR to fix the issue, please see: #12097

[jin]

The associated PR looks like this is impacts Windows hosts. Categorizing as area-Windows.

[meteorcloudy]

The PR has been merged. I'll close this issue now.

[aiuto]

This is causing RBE problems.

[meteorcloudy]

https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/commit/acd33154322de3447c016009754e2ed275017c81 will fix the RBE breakage

[philwo]

After Yun's comment, I'm assuming this is fixed.