Re: how to make svn _follow_ symbolic links?

On Jul 22, 2009, at 16:37, Misha Aizatulin wrote:

>> But it can't be transparent. This would treat 'your' working copy
>> differently than you are asking it to treat everyone else's.
>
> Isn't it what is happening with symlinks already? At the moment I
> can
> check in a representation of a symlink with svn:special property. If I
> check it out on Linux, it comes out as real symlink, but on Windows
> only
> the contents are recreated.

To make sure we're on the same page: on Windows, the file you get
does not have the contents of the thing the symlink pointed to; it
only contains the string "Link " followed by the path the symlink
points to.

> Thus even with current svn there is no invariant saying that all
> working copies should be exactly the same.

This is true, but I don't believe this is in dispute. svn:eol-style
set to native also causes differences in working copies.

I do not see that Misha is asking for Subversion to treat different
working copies differently. Rather, he is asking for Subversion to
treat a symlink in a working copy differently than Subversion
currently treats symlinks.

I'm just trying to clarify the user's request, not saying I agree
with it. :-)

There has been talk previously of handling this different symlink
behavior via a new svn property. But this does not make sense because
the symlink is not in the repository; it is only in a working copy.

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