Configuring Jenkins to use JGit, cloning a git repo containing symlinks leads to a clone where symlinks are replaced by files. The created clone config file contains the following:

[core]
    symlinks = false

According to what I read in this JGit issue, I thought the issue would have been solved by meeting the following conditions:

• running Jenkins on java 7
• Using JGit>3.7.0, i.e. using git-client-plugin>=1.18.0

It seems I was wrong, but I don't know where to look now.