Re: Checking out to a NFS mapped drive under windows

Tim Armes wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Thanks for your reply. It actually makes no difference if it's the root
>directory or not, both these commands fail :
>
>svn co http://... g:
>
>svn co http://... g:\mycode
>
Ah... try two dirs below a volume root, then it should work.

>I can mount g:, but I get the same problem.
>
>What causes the problem ? Surely if you're using windows calls, then the
>fact that G is a mapped drive should be transparent ?
>
They're implemented as symbolic links -- reparse points in Windows
terminology. APR is aware of those, so it'll report the file type as
"symbolic link" instead of "file" or "directory", and Subversion isn't
prepared to deal with links.

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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