svn symlink support on windows

[mateuf <ma...@googlemail.com>]

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?

RE: svn symlink support on windows

[Bert Huijben <be...@vmoo.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mateuf [mailto:mateufg@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