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Re: Link support on Windows

From: Rob Oxspring <roxspring_at_imapmail.org>
Date: 2004-08-17 23:53:00 CEST

As a work around to this case why not switch the junction around? i.e.
have C:\inetpub\wwwroot\B be a junction pointing at C:\A\B. That way
the working copy at C:\A should be perfectly useable.

Just a thought,

Rob

Gustavo Guerra wrote:
> Maybe I'll explain better what I want
>
> I have folder c:\A under subversion /A
> Then I have c:\inetpub\wwwroot\B under /A/B
> Then I have a junction from C:\A\B pointing to c:\inetpub\wwwroot\B
> If I'm in explorer in C:\A\B and try to do something with TortoiseSVN, I get
> error message "Symbolic links are not supported on this platform", I have to
> go trough the real path c:\inetpub\wwwroot\B. That's really anoying.
>
> Regards
> Gustavo Guerra
>
> "Gustavo Guerra" <gmcg@acm.org> wrote in message
> news:cftqui$t30$1@sea.gmane.org...
>
>>I just discovered in by a TortoiseSVN error message that Subversion doesn't
>>support symbolic links on windows. (I'm using Subversion 1.1 RC2 and
>>TortoiseSVN 1.1 RC1).
>>
>>Is this feature planned for future? How long till that?
>>
>>Regards
>>Gustavo Guerra
>
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