Val Schmidt <vschmidt@ldeo.columbia.edu> wrote on 08/18/2004 03:00:08 PM:
> WRT the FAQ:
> -----------snip------------
> Does Subversion support symlinks?
> Subversion does not currently support symlinks, and there are no
> concrete plans to support them. The obstacle has been that symbolic
> links are not portable across all the platforms Subversion runs on.
> Therefore, any design for symlink support has to account for how the
> symlinks will behave in a working copy checked out into an environment
> that doesn't support symlinks.
> --------------snip-----------
>
> It's not clear to me from this statement if the difficulty in symlinks
> is on both the client side software AND the server side, or just the
> client.
>
Feature has been added in Subversion 1.1 (not released yet).
http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.1_releasenotes.html
Mark
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