Symlinks from Windoze?

["Monks, Peter" <pe...@vignette.com>]

G'day everyone,
 
Is there a plan afoot to allow the creation of symlinks in the
repository, but from a Windoze client?
 
What I'm envisaging is a command something akin to "svn cp", but where
the copy results in a symlink being written into the repository rather
than a separately versioned copy of the file / directory in question.
And of course once the symlink is in the repositiry, it would be
indistinguishable from a symlink that was created via a *nix client, and
then committed to the repos (ie. all the existing symlink rules from the
upcoming 1.1 release would apply verbatim).
 
Cheers,
Peter
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Peter Monks
<http://www.sydneyclimbing.com/> http://www.sydneyclimbing.com/
pmonks@sydneyclimbing.com
<http://www.geocities.com/yosemite/4455/>
http://www.geocities.com/yosemite/4455/
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Re: Symlinks from Windoze?

[Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@collab.net>]

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 20:06, Monks, Peter wrote:
> G'day everyone,
>  
> Is there a plan afoot to allow the creation of symlinks in the
> repository, but from a Windoze client?
>  
> What I'm envisaging is a command something akin to "svn cp", but where
> the copy results in a symlink being written into the repository rather
> than a separately versioned copy of the file / directory in question. 
> And of course once the symlink is in the repositiry, it would be
> indistinguishable from a symlink that was created via a *nix client, 

In theory, you can already do this from windows (haven't tried this
yet):

> echo "link foo.txt" > linky
> svn add linky
> svn propset svn:special "*" linky
> svn commit -m "creating linky as a symlink to foo.txt"


Now, when you do an update or checkout on unix, you should get a symilnk
named 'linky' that points to foo.txt.





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