Re: Quick question concerning symlinks

On Feb 9, 2007, at 21:17, Jing Xue wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 04:09:19PM +0000, mal content wrote:
>
>> What is the expected behaviour when checking in a symlink that points
>> to a file NOT under version control?
>>
>> As an example:
>>
>> $ ln -s /bin/sh shell
>> $ svn add shell
>
> Just curious - does anyone know what this link would become if it's
> checked out
> into a work copy in Windows?

I believe it would become a text file containing the string "/bin/
sh". Symlinks do not work / exist on Windows. You could try it out
and see what happens.

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