svn ln (symlink in repositories)

As there was some discussion on the possibility of storing symlinks into a
repos, I'd like to suggest something :

symlinks (or hard links, for that matter) are basically directory entries
that point to the same file. Instead of implementing Unix symlinks in the
repository (with all the portability problems), it could be useful to have
a 'svn ln' command, similar to 'svn cp', but that doesn't create a new
branch.

In other words, if you do
        $ svn ln foo bar
then it creates the resource '/path/bar' in the repository, as
a copy of '/path/foo', but in a way that '/path/bar' is always
updated when '/path/foo' is changed (and vice-versa). (For any
revision N > rev number where bar is created, foo@N and bar@N
are the same.)

When convenient or possible, bar could be created as a symlink
to foo in a working copy, but I don't see a high need for this.

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Received on Mon Oct 14 10:07:06 2002