Prepare Git's test suite for symbolic link support on Windows - #2009

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t9700: accommodate for Windows paths
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apply: symbolic links lack a "trustable executable bit"
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mingw: special-case `open(symlink, O_CREAT | O_EXCL)`
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t0001: handle `diff --no-index` gracefully

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t0301: another fix for Windows compatibility
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t0600: fix incomplete prerequisite for a test case
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t1006: accommodate for symlink support in MSYS2
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t1305: skip symlink tests that do not apply to Windows
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t6423: introduce Windows-specific handling for symlinking to /dev/null
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t7800: work around the MSYS path conversion on Windows
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