I think you're misunderstanding the meaning of what a "symlink" is.
On Windows the closest analogue would be a "shortcut". A symlink will not
be updated with the contents of a file or directory any more than a shortcut
would.
If you are looking for having a different part of the repository show up in
a directory (a "symlink to a directory" as you describe it here), I would
suggest that you look in the documentation for the svn:externals property,
it may do something similar to what you want.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Monks, Peter" <peter.monks@vignette.com>
To: "Ben Collins-Sussman" <sussman@collab.net>
Cc: <users@subversion.tigris.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 6:29 PM
Subject: RE: Symlinks from Windoze?
Sorry for the spam - I got a bit excited for a moment there. ;-)
Bonus question: what if linky points to a directory? Will it be
replaced with a real Windoze directory (complete with files and sub-
directories) upon commit?
Cheers,
Peter
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Peter Monks http://www.sydneyclimbing.com/
pmonks_at_sydneyclimbing.com http://www.geocities.com/yosemite/4455/
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Monks, Peter
> Sent: Thursday, 12 August 2004 6:27pm
> To: 'Ben Collins-Sussman'
> Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: RE: Symlinks from Windoze?
>
>
> G'day Ben,
>
> Ooooh nice!! And after I've done the commit on the Windoze box, linky
> will be repopulated with the contents of foo.txt? Or do I need to
> update it after I've committed?
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Peter Monks http://www.sydneyclimbing.com/
> pmonks_at_sydneyclimbing.com http://www.geocities.com/yosemite/4455/
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ben Collins-Sussman [mailto:sussman@collab.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, 12 August 2004 6:17pm
> > To: Monks, Peter
> > Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
> > Subject: Re: Symlinks from Windoze?
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 20:06, Monks, Peter wrote:
> > > G'day everyone,
> > >
> > > Is there a plan afoot to allow the creation of symlinks in the
> > > repository, but from a Windoze client?
> > >
> > > What I'm envisaging is a command something akin to "svn
> > cp", but where
> > > the copy results in a symlink being written into the
> > repository rather
> > > than a separately versioned copy of the file / directory in
> > question.
> > > And of course once the symlink is in the repositiry, it would be
> > > indistinguishable from a symlink that was created via a
> > *nix client,
> >
> > In theory, you can already do this from windows (haven't tried this
> > yet):
> >
> > > echo "link foo.txt" > linky
> > > svn add linky
> > > svn propset svn:special "*" linky
> > > svn commit -m "creating linky as a symlink to foo.txt"
> >
> >
> > Now, when you do an update or checkout on unix, you should
> > get a symilnk
> > named 'linky' that points to foo.txt.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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