Symbolic Link support in Vista

[Joel Low <jo...@joelsplace.sg>]

Hello all,

I've been told to bring this topic to this list instead.

Regards,
Joel

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Küng [mailto:tortoisesvn@gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, 28 June, 2008 3:45 PM
To: dev@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Symbolic Link support in Vista

Joel Low wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> I’d like to check with you guys – Vista has brought in Symbolic link 
> support (and hard links have been present since Win2k IIRC). I’ve got 
> a file or two under version control that are repeated because they are 
> configuration files so I’ve just symlinked them together. When 
> committing I get errors:
> 
>  
> 
> Commit succeeded, but other errors follow:
> 
> Error bumping revisions post-commit (details follow):
> 
> In directory 'D:\Development\Libraries\foo\bar'
> 
> Error processing command 'committed' in 'D:\Development\Libraries\foo\bar'
> 
> Error comparing
> 
> 'D:\Development\Libraries\foo\bar\setup.h' and 
> 'D:\Development\Libraries\foo\bar\.svn\text-base\setup.h.svn-base'
> 
> Symbolic links are not supported on this platform
> 
>  
> 
> Is this an issue that I should be checking with the Subversion 
> developers instead? And if so – how will TSVN handle such a scenario?