Vista Symlinks

[Sam Barnett-Cormack <s....@lancaster.ac.uk>]

Hi all,

I looked at the conversations about Windows symlinks in the archive, and 
while there seems to be some edifying discussion, there doesn't seem to 
be any mention of the specific problem I've run into.

I'm using TortoiseSVN at the moment, but the folks on their mailing list 
assure me that the behaviour I'm describing is in the svn libraries, so 
to ask about it here. I've worked around it by *not* using symlinks for 
now, but it's annoying.

I wanted a document that's at one place in my source tree to be 
accessible from elsewhere, and I'm running Vista, so I made a symlink; 
reading the docs for subversion made me think this would just end up as 
two separate files in the repository, but keep the usefulness of a 
symlink in my local copy. In hindsight, I doubt it would have worked 
even if that were the behaviour, but what did happen surprised me.

As far as I can tell (and I'm not going to list all the evidence now, 
just trust I have some clue), a symlink was correctly added to the 
repository on commit, and this was good. However, on the post-commit 
update, it barfed saying "symlinks not support". This left me with an 
unclean working copy that wouldn't clean, but I sorted that out by hand.

It would seem to me that this behaviour is faulty, whether you want to 
support Vista's symlinks or not, and should be fixed one way or the 
other. I'd prefer that symlinks be supported on Vista just like *nix, 
personally, especially as Vista's the only windows version I now 
regularly use...

Sam

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