AW: AW: AW: [TSVN] Hard links

>These links on NTFS are called Junctions and are rarely used. Subversion
>doesn't get on with them
>at all. As they are rarely used I wouldn't advise holding your breath
>while waiting for support for
>them:-)

There is no need to support them, 99.9999% of all Win32 applications don't
use them (or know about them), but they do not delete a file before writing
to it.

And sorry, but Junctions and Hard Links are NOT the same, see MSDN Storage
Platform SDK:

Hard Links and Junctions

A hard link is the file system representation of a file by which more than
one path references a single file in the same volume. Many changes to that
file are instantly visible to applications that access it through the hard
links that reference it. However, the directory entry size and attribute
information is updated only for the link through which the change was made.

...

A junction (also called a soft link) differs from a hard link in that the
storage objects it references are separate directories, and a junction can
link directories located on different local volumes on the same computer.
Otherwise, junctions operate identically to hard links.

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Received on Wed Jul 21 17:44:11 2004