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Re: Symlinks on Windows

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_red-bean.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:05:27 -0400

Eric Armstrong <Eric.Armstrong_at_Sun.COM> writes:
> (Please cc me on any replies)
>
> This FAQ says that SVN handles symlinks, but
> "windows doesn't have them":
> http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#symlinks
>
> But Windows has had shortcuts for quite a while
> now. Is the FAQ (hopefully) outdated?

I think there was some specific reason why we couldn't just implement
symlinks as shortcuts on Windows, but I don't remember what it was. If
we find out, we should update the FAQ to talk about it.

-Karl

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