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Symbolic Link support in Vista

From: Joel Low <joel_at_joelsplace.sg>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:36:43 +0800

Hello all,

I've been told to bring this topic to this list instead.

Regards,
Joel

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Küng [mailto:tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, 28 June, 2008 3:45 PM
To: dev_at_tortoisesvn.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Symbolic Link support in Vista

Joel Low wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I’d like to check with you guys – Vista has brought in Symbolic link
> support (and hard links have been present since Win2k IIRC). I’ve got
> a file or two under version control that are repeated because they are
> configuration files so I’ve just symlinked them together. When
> committing I get errors:
>
>
>
> Commit succeeded, but other errors follow:
>
> Error bumping revisions post-commit (details follow):
>
> In directory 'D:\Development\Libraries\foo\bar'
>
> Error processing command 'committed' in 'D:\Development\Libraries\foo\bar'
>
> Error comparing
>
> 'D:\Development\Libraries\foo\bar\setup.h' and
> 'D:\Development\Libraries\foo\bar\.svn\text-base\setup.h.svn-base'
>
> Symbolic links are not supported on this platform
>
>
>
> Is this an issue that I should be checking with the Subversion
> developers instead? And if so – how will TSVN handle such a scenario?
Received on 2008-07-03 10:37:25 CEST

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