Re: [TSVN] Tortoise SVN and junctions?

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:46:57 -0500, Monks, Peter
<peter.monks@vignette.com> wrote:
> G'day everyone,
>
> I've discovered what I believe to be a bug in TortoiseSVN (version
> 1.0.8 build 1430), when it is used in combination with junctions (see
> http://shell-shocked.org/article.php?id=284).

That's not a bug. It's by design.

[snip]
> Expected result:
> All operations work normally.

Why would you expect that? Junctions make the filesystem not work like
normal, so it can't just work normally.

> Actual result:
> Various error messages, including:
> * 'C:\Path\Of\Junction' is not a working copy
> * Could not add 'filename.ext' to the ignore list!

Subversion (and therefore TortoiseSVN too) doesn't support junctions
and hardlinks. Subversion 1.1.0 will support hardlinks, but only on
Linux, not Windows.

Stefan

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Received on Tue Aug 24 10:29:36 2004