Re: Suggestion for special file storage in 1.0

Just subscribed to the list, so I'm not sure if this suggestion hasn't
been thrown out before.

But what about treating symbolic links as meta-data to the project
itself (or the root directory or something), and having the SVN client
determine how to generate the symbolic link. ie: On *nix, a symbolic
link, on Windows, create a "shortcut".

Since meta-data is revisioned, then changes to the symbolic link
structure could be preserved and revisioned as well.

Unfortunately, it would require different implementations on each
platform, as well as the proper parsing to handle changes to the files,
but is it an approach that gets most of the kinks worked out?

In a way, it feels like a hack, but with a symbolic link, you have your
key & data defined (link location & link target). The only question is
then where to actually store the meta-data.

Thoughts?

--Rich