On 09/05/07, Julian Kolodko <Julian.Kolodko@silverbrookresearch.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the information on hardlinks under NTFS.
>
> Unfortunately, as Daniel pointed out, I was using the wrong
> terminology. The links in the original Linux working copy were actually
> symlinks (softlinks) rather than hard links. If they had been hardlinks
> then presumably multiple copies of the same file would have been stored
> in the repository.
>
> I thought I might be able to sidestep this problem by checking out the
> directory using svn under cygwin. Interestingly SVN under cygwin treats
> symbolic links differently to Tortisesvn. Tortisesvn writes a simple
> text file that gives the location of the target file. When you check
> out using Cygwin/SVN and look at the result under cygwin all the
> symlinks work as you would expect. Under windows explorer the symlinks
> appear as windows links (windows displays a little arrow at the bottom
> left of the icon and the file is a binary file not a simple text file)
> but double clicking on the link doesn't do anything.
Again, this is not specifically TortoiseSVN but the underlying
subversion library. You will get the same with the windows command
line client.
> I might try getting access to a Linux system, checkout the directory
> then try moving it to my windows PC using samba. Maybe that will
> replace the symlinks with copies of the target file. If all else fails
> I'll try writing a script to do the job.
A word of warning here. You should not use one working copy with
different OSes, for example if you checkout a WC on a shared drive in
Windows and then access it using the Linux svn client you can run into
trouble. The WC format is not designed to be accessed on multiple
platforms simultaneously.
Simon
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Received on Wed May 9 10:24:29 2007