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Dmitry Gapkalov commented on SVN-3570:
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But GIT already completely support symlinks on Windows a years ago. Please add
this functionality to SVN.
> Add support for Windows symlinks (junction points)
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> Key: SVN-3570
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-3570
> Project: Subversion
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: unknown
> Affects Versions: all
> Environment: Windows Vista
> Reporter: Subversion Importer
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: blue-sky
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> {noformat:nopanel=true}
> Starting with Windows Vista there is full support for all kinds of symlinks.
> Even Windows XP does have partial support for
> symlinks.
> Currently subversion gives this error message when you try to submit symlinks
> from Windows:
> "Symbolic links are not supported on this platform"
> Information regarding symlinks under Windows
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365680(VS.85).aspx
> Remark, under Windows directory symlinks are called junction points and also
> symlinks are working only on NTFS.
> It could be helpful to read http://bugs.python.org/issue1578269 - specially
> to be aware about the fact that by default only
> Administrators can create symlinks. Anyway subversion should only try create
> the symlink and if this fails to display an error
> message indicating a solution to the user (assigning this privilege to normal
> user).
> {noformat}
> Original issue reported by *intersol*
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