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Re: Symlinks on Win32...

From: ALIBERTI Emanuele <aliberti_at_tecnest.it>
Date: 2006-02-01 09:15:02 CET

Phillip Susi wrote:
> As someone else said, NT only allows links to directories, not files (
> AFAIK ), and there is still a bug that causes subversion to see linked
> directories as collided. This may only apply if you locally link them
> though, not if they are links in the repository. See:
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2284
>
> It might be worth investigating further, but I also have the feeling
> that a lot of windows software will break when encountering junctions.
>

Hi Phillip,

I agree with you, of course. My remark was only intended to clarify the
sentence "there's no support for symlinks on Windows".

ea

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