Re: svn and symlinks?

In a message dated: 19 Nov 2002 13:30:55 CST
Karl Fogel said:

>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.

Sure, I can do that.

>> 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

Okay, fair enough. Not a big deal right now.

How does CVS handle this, or is this also a place where CVS breaks
down?

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Paul
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