> -----Original Message----- > From: mateuf [mailto:mate...@googlemail.com] > Sent: vrijdag 9 juli 2010 11:08 > To: users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: svn symlink support on windows > > Getting tired of reading svn doesn't properly do symlinks on windows > cause win doesn't support them. Can someone categorically claim mklink > on current windoze isn't up to the job? > I know it is a command line and it requires admin rights. I don't bite > command line - just find an underlying API - if mklink does it > properly then any sw should be able to. > Are admin rights a problem? I'd imagine this must be quite a common > case for other scenarios on win. Surely this can be overcome?
(See also several mails on this list about the same subject) The (Windows Vista+) API also requires administrative privileges and more importantly requires you tell tell if the symlink is going to point at a file or at a directory while creating the symlink. And this information isn't stored in subversion as on unix it can point to anything. And nobody has come up with a good design to work around/with these issues. Bert