RE: svn support for symbolic link?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Levy [mailto:andy.levy_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 2:23 PM
> To: Lars Tiefland
> Cc: Brown, Michael; Peng Yu; users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Re: svn support for symbolic link?
>
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 16:10, Lars Tiefland <ltiefland_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > But: Only a Linux / Unix client will preserve symbolic links. On
> Windows the
> > link will become a normal file.
>
> Actually, it'll be a file that basically contains "you should be
> looking at another file, look over there". The link isn't "resolved"
> to the file it points to.

I believe Windows 2000 and up (NTFS 5.0+ really) supports junctions that are nearly identical to Unix symbolic links. See http://shell-shocked.org/article.php?id=284 . At the very least directory symbolic links are supported, and file links may be as well. So is there a good reason for svn not to support this in Windows?

--Todd

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