Re: follow symlinks

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Dirk <noisyb_at_pwnoogle.com> wrote:

> after going "full retard" in IRC (it was good for me) I have calmed down
> enough to give constructive criticism in regards of subversion and how it
> handles symbolic links on Unix (and compat.) platforms.
>
> I wan't to start with a question. I am confident there is no answer to it.
> At least not from people who share code between projects.
>
> * Why does subversion store symbolic links instead of following them? *
>
>
Here is the original thread when the feature was added, I would assume this
was discussed but I suppose it might have happened prior to the patch being
submitted (did not read the entire thread):

http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2004-06/0986.shtml

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Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/