Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> As there was some discussion on the possibility of storing symlinks
> into a repos, I'd like to suggest something :
>
> symlinks (or hard links, for that matter) are basically directory
> entries that point to the same file. Instead of implementing Unix
> symlinks in the repository (with all the portability problems), it
> could be useful to have a 'svn ln' command, similar to 'svn cp', but
> that doesn't create a new branch.
A very big -1 on the word "instead". There are two completely
orthogonal things, which solve different problems. 'svn ln' for the
repository would be good in my opinion - and it has been suggested
before - but it is a different thing. What the discussion was about
was symlink _storage_ in a repository. The mail I wrote that was the
start of the recent discussion specifically excluded repository-side
symlinks from the scope.
-- Naked
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Received on Fri Oct 18 01:45:39 2002