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Re: Symlinks show up as "blocked" in Windows

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 17:36:46 +0300 (Jerusalem Daylight Time)

Ryan Schmidt wrote on Sat, 1 Aug 2009 at 01:10 -0500:
> On Jul 31, 2009, at 17:36, Jim Garrison wrote:
>
> > version 1.6.3 (r38063)
> >
> > Scenario:
> >
> > 1) A repository containing files checked in from Linux, some of
> > which are symbolic links.
> > 2) The repository is checked out on a Windows system
> > 3) On Windows the links show up as "shortcut" objects (not a
> > problem). However,
> >
> > 4) svn status lists all the symlinks as "blocked" (status character
> > '~') and TortoiseSVN shows them as having local modifications.
> >
> > Is this working as expected?
>
> I do not use Windows, but I understood that what you should see is a
> text file containing the string "link " followed by the path to the
> location the symlink points to.

Yes.

> I don't know what could be causing these to appear as actual Windows
> shortcuts for you.

Are you using Cygwin svn?

> Do the shortcuts actually work?
>
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