RE: Suggestion for special file storage in 1.0

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brandon Ehle [mailto:azverkan@yahoo.com]
> Sent: 14 October 2002 02:08
> To: subversion-devel
> Subject: Re: Suggestion for special file storage in 1.0
>
>
> Barry Scott wrote:
>
> >How will it look on Windows?
> >
> >
> Aren't symlinks possibly with NTFS5?

I know about reparse mounts. The problem with using them is

a) only NTFS file system
b) poor tools support from Microsoft.

As you know I'm not a supporter or adding this. But if it
is added I'd want to be able to add, delete and modify from
windows a symlink that is stored in subversion.

I think dropping the text of the link into a normal file
would be sufficent. I'd not use reparse points given their
second class status.

Another issue is what do you save as the contents of a symlink?

If its relative then save its contents.

If its absolute and points inside the working dir then you
should store the fact that its relative to a point in the repo.
This is hard to do as you might not have enough repo checked
out to figure out that what its relative to.

If I use a makefile these issues are trivia to solve.

Barry

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Received on Mon Oct 14 22:30:18 2002