Re: Symlinks on Windows

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:27:41 -0400, "richard hornsby"
<richardjhornsby_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>To answer your assertion - to the best of my knowledge, feel free to correct
>me - symlinks (*nix) are not the same thing as shortcuts in windows.

There are now three things to contend with on Win32;

Shortcuts - .lnk files that are nothing like symlinks as you suggest.

NTFS junction points - These are similar to symlinks, however are not
well supported by Windows -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point

NTFS symbolic links - There replace Junction Points in Vista and
Server 2003, and work cross-file system -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link

If it were possible to get svn to support symlinks on Windows, it
would be for Vista/2003 only, I suspect.

Greg

-- 
This post represents the views of the author and does
not necessarily accurately represent the views of BT.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe_at_subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help_at_subversion.tigris.org