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Re: svn and symlinks?

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_newton.ch.collab.net>
Date: 2002-11-19 20:30:55 CET

Paul Lussier <pll@lanminds.com> writes:
> Hmmm, I just tried it out before I read this response.
> Interestingly, I created a couple of symlinks within a wc,
> then committed, and everything went fine. Now, though, when I check
> out a new wc, I get 2 copies of the file, not one copy and a symlink
> to that copy.

Since we don't yet support them, we would better return an
SVN_ERR_UNSUPPORTED_FEATURE error right now, instead of silently
mishandling them. Can you file an issue with your recipe? This
shouldn't be too hard to patch.

> I'm curious if there are plans to better handle symlinks in the
> future. And if so, how would that work in a cross-platform
> environment, e.g. a windows client checking out a repo created from
> on a UNIX-based platform where symlinks were used?

There is an intention, but not yet a plan. The questions you ask
above are exactly what we'll need to figure out; but we've deferred
the discussion until we're actually implementing the feature.

-K

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