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Re: Intro and questions

From: <kfogel_at_collab.net>
Date: 2001-08-03 21:54:55 CEST

Branko =?ISO-8859-2?Q?=C8ibej?= <brane@xbc.nu> writes:
> >2. Since Subversion will version real symlinks in the expected way,
> >
>
> Ouch. What is the expected way on systems that don't support symlinks?
> For instance: if xou check in a symlink on Unix, and check out on Win32,
> what happens?

Nobody knows. Your suggestions are welcome. :-)

(I thought Windows had shortcuts? Are they different from symlinks?)

One answer might be to store the link target as the file's contents,
but keep the entry marked as type "symlink".

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