On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Keith Moore
> <Keith.Moore_at_securency.com> > I tried this on Windows 7 Enterprise with
> TortoiseSVN 1.6.8, Subversion 1.6.11 and got the error message "svn:
> Symbolic links are not supported on this platform". Now, I know these
> error messages can be a bit cryptic so I googled this one and it actually
> means that symbolic links are not supported on Window 7 ;o)
Windows 7 DOES support symbolic links. However, you can't simply
create a symbolic link. You first have to be an administrator. Then,
bump up your console window to an Administrator console window. Oh,
and you can only create symbolic links on NTFS file systems. I know
many people whose boot partition is still FAT32.
I'm not sure if you can use Tortoise for this, or you must use the
command line tool since you have to be able to bump your tool up to
administrator level. You have to do this although you already may be
an administrator on the current machine.
It wouldn't surprise me (considering all the limits: You need to be an
administrator, your current shell must have admin privileges set, you
need to be Vista or Windows 7, and you need NTFS) that the various
Subversion for Windows clients don't support
symlinks.
My personal preference is not to use symlinks in my source repository.
Instead, depend upon the build system or the installation system to
create any needed symlinks.
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David Weintraub
qazwart_at_gmail.com
Received on 2010-05-26 18:49:51 CEST