Re: Quick question concerning symlinks

On 2/10/07, Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2007a@ryandesign.com> wrote:
> 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.

"link /bin/sh" to be exact, but yea, why ask the question instead of trying?

bye,

Erik.

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@subversion.tigris.org
Received on Sat Feb 10 14:00:13 2007