git very much supports symlinks. Although depending on the system config it might not create actual symlinks on Windows.

IIRC that's actually a change in upstream pip.

> Indeed, while Chrome is displaying the dialog, it blocks all Chrome extension popup windows from appearing.

We discovered this one the hard way at work. I keep learning this the hard way myself because I've been working on browser extension dev lately. I don't understand how this could possibly be an intended feature.

typing.NamedTuple also sets `__slots__ = ()`, just like collections.namedtuple.