AW: AW: [TSVN] Hard links

>On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:45:39 +0200, Marco Scholz <mscholz@samson.de> wrote:
>>
>> >Subversion. Check the Subversion FAQ. Hardlinks will be working with
>> >the 1.1.x branch.
>>
>> I can't find something about hard links on the subversion website, only
>> about symb. links under unix.
>
>That't the same: symb. links are ~ the same as hardlinks on windows.

>From the Changelog 1.1 of subversion:

...

Symlink versioning

This feature allows unix users to to place symlinks under version control.
(Note: this is not about creating links inside a repository that point to
other parts of the repository!)

When a user adds a unix symlink to version control and commits, the
repository stores the object as a file with the "svn:special" property
attached. When the client sees this property during checkouts and updates,
the repository file is translated back into a symlink within the working
copy. On win32 systems, the client does no translation, and the user sees
just an ordinary file. (But a win32 user can hand-edit the contents of this
file, which will still have an affect of changing the symlink on a unix
system.)

...

Sounds not promising on Win32 systems...... many developers even don't know
about win32 hard links.

All I want it that subversion saves the files in the normal way: overwrite a
existing file, not delete and create a new one.

I will write to the subversion dev. Mailing list......

Greetings

Marco Scholz

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Received on Wed Jul 21 17:13:56 2004