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Re: Ideal Subversion Setup

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:48:56 -0500

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 08:39, Ryan Schmidt
<subversion-2009d_at_ryandesign.com> wrote:

> To commit the symlink, you will need to run "svn commit" on the Linux server, not on the Windows machine, since as I mentioned, the Windows operating system has no concept of symlinks and cannot represent them.

Actually, NTFS and Windows do have Symlinks as of Vista. Support for
it would probably have to come from APR though, and then we'd have a
situation where the same version of Subversion behaves differently on
different versions of Windows - I'm sure there'd be lots of confusion
there.
Received on 2009-12-17 14:49:26 CET

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