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From: David Player <d.player@tecplot.com>
To: "'users@subversion.apache.org'" <users@subversion.apache.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 12:50:31 -0700
Subject: RE: symlinks in Windows
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Thank you for those links. I believe that some of the details mentioned on =
those pages are wrong. The user does not need to be an administrator to use=
 links. The user does require a permission to use one form of directory and=
 file linking, but not for the other form.

The real issue is that SVN doesn't store whether the target is a directory =
or file. That seems solvable. I wish I had time to solve it myself.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Sperling [mailto:stsp@elego.de]
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 12:31 PM
To: David Player
Cc: 'users@subversion.apache.org'
Subject: Re: symlinks in Windows

On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 12:02:31PM -0700, David Player wrote:
> My company uses symlinks with svn quite a bit, but the symlinks are alway=
s broken in Windows. This has been the case since svn 1.1 or 1.2. Links hav=
e been supported in Windows since 2000, and improved in Vista in early 2007=
. The mklink utility has been included since Vista.
>
> Is there a workaround for this issue? Has it been fixed recently?

Unfortunately it is not trivial to add support for NTFS junctions to Subver=
sion.

See http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3D3570
and in particular this post indirectly linked from it:
http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=3D1065&dsMessageId=
=3D2416457

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