Re: [TSVN] symbolic links - unix to unix via Tortoise

On 8/8/05, Mark Richards <mark.richards@massmicro.com> wrote:
> I didn't use a unix client. Am using Tortoise SVN.
>
> I should think tortoise would pass files of all types through without
> mangling them on the way. Especially since both my repository and target
> live on unix.
>
> Looks like I have to give up on Tortoise. Seems to be more a
> windows-centric tool.
>
[...]

That's what I found about Unix symlinks and Windows SVN clients:
(http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.props.html#svn.advanced.props.special.special)

"...
Note: Windows clients don't have symbolic links, and thus ignore any
svn:special files coming from a repository that claim to be symbolic
links. On Windows, the user ends up with an ordinary versioned file in
the working copy."

-- 
Milen A. Radev
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