svn handles symlinks by having a special file attribute for “this is a
symlink” and the contents in its repository are just the directory to point
the symlink at.
This works well for simple cases, although I’ve found replacing symlinks
with real files can cause some confusion if you’re not careful.
— Sarah
On 25 May 2010 06:23, Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 16:10, Lars Tiefland <ltiefland_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > But: Only a Linux / Unix client will preserve symbolic links. On Windows
> the
> > link will become a normal file.
>
> Actually, it'll be a file that basically contains "you should be
> looking at another file, look over there". The link isn't "resolved"
> to the file it points to.
>
> >
> > 2010/5/24 Brown, Michael <michael.l.brown_at_philips.com>
> >>
> >> Yep, we use them.
> >> MB
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> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: Peng Yu [mailto:pengyu.ut_at_gmail.com]
> >> > Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 2:25 PM
> >> > To: users_at_subversion.apache.org
> >> > Subject: svn support for symbolic link?
> >> >
> >> > For some reason, I need to create symbolic link in my source
> >> > directory. When the directory structure is changed, I have some tools
> >> > to fix broken links.
> >> >
> >> > I'm wondering if svn support symbolic links.
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Regards,
> >> > Peng
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Received on 2010-05-25 04:27:11 CEST