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Re: How to convert a regular file to a sym link?

From: Noel Yap <noel.yap_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2005-12-01 18:21:37 CET

On 12/1/05, Matt England <mengland@mengland.net> wrote:
> However, I was hoping there was an alternative way to do this via subversion, at least on a per-file basis, other then the svn del-then-add process, chiefly because said process loses the file history properties (I think).
>
> Any further thoughts?

Like I said before, don't keep symlinks under version control.
Rather, version control a script that creates the symlinks. You'll
never lose history if you only version control files.

Noel

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