Re: 'svn ln'? (was Re: let's kill svn:externals)

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From: <pll@lanminds.com>

> It's been discussed before, the real problem seems to be how to
> implement symlinks in a portable way. Basically, UNIX (and it's
> variants/derivatives) is the only platform where the concept of
> symlinks really exists. Windows has "shortcuts", but they're not at
> all the same as symlinks (AFAIK). Then, there's MacOS. I don't know

Windows has, besides the shortcuts, also something called "hardlinks". But
only on NTFS formatted harddisk - FAT doesn't support that feature.

Stefan

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Received on Wed Jul 23 22:58:51 2003