Re: NTFS Junction points (symlinks) within the working copy

On Apr 13, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

> NTFS supports shortcuts, *NOT* symlinks.

This is a common misconception. Shortcuts are regular files treated
specially by Explorer.exe. NTFS supports what Microsoft calls
"Junction Points" or "Reparse Points" which can act as symlinks (on
directories) or hard links (on files). Unfortunately, practically no
windows executables can tell the difference between a symlink and a
regular directory, which leads to unfortunate behavior like Windows
Explorer recursively deleting the target directory instead of just
unlinking the junction point. And, apparently, subversion screwing
up my directory hierarchy.

There's a good windows shell extension NTFS Link <http://
www.elsdoerfer.info/ntfslink/> that causes Explorer.exe to behave
more reasonably when dealing with junction points.

> I suspect that you will never be able to get this to work the way
> you expect.

On this point you may be right.

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Received on Fri Apr 14 01:06:15 2006