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Re: How does Subversion manage soft links? On Windows?

From: Noel Yap <noel.yap_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2005-11-28 18:36:55 CET

IMNSHO, it's much better to version a script that creates symlinks
than versioning the symlinks themselves. The former allows:
- easy type versioning (eg the symlink could disappear, reappear as a
real directory, ...)
- portability across OS's
- portability across VC tools

Is there a reason why you feel you need to version symlinks?

Noel

On 11/26/05, Matt England <mengland@mengland.net> wrote:
> How does Subversion manage soft links?
>
> I'm hoping that it works just fine for unix systems/filesystems.
>
> What about Windows? What happens when a soft link in a repo created via linux is exported/checked-out to a Windows system?
>
> Once again, I'm sure this is a faq, but I could not find anything on the tigris.org faq or the online red-bean.com book.
>
> -Matt
>
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