> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Schmidt [mailto:subversion-2009b_at_ryandesign.com]
> Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 1:10 AM
> To: Jim Garrison
> Cc: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Symlinks show up as "blocked" in Windows
>
>
> 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. I don't know
> what could be causing these to appear as actual Windows
> shortcuts for you. Do the shortcuts actually work?
I did the update in Cygwin svn. I'm not concerned about the
links themselves, but the fact that the links show up as "blocked"
when doing "svn status" from the command line, and as having
local modifications (i.e. needing to be checked in) in Tortoise.
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Received on 2009-08-03 17:00:54 CEST