RE: Symlinks on Windows

2018-11-02 Thread Robert Heller
ing like* a symlink, but it is not really the same. > > From: Pavel Lyalyakin > Sent: 1 November, 2018 17:49 > To: Bengt Nilsson > Cc: users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: Re: Symlinks on Windows > > Hello, > > On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 6:39 PM, Bengt Nilsson >

Re: Symlinks on Windows

2018-11-02 Thread Branko Čibej
a feature that requires special permissions to use is a non-starter. -- Brane > *From:* Pavel Lyalyakin > *Sent:* 1 November, 2018 17:49 > *To:* Bengt Nilsson > *Cc:* users@subversion.apache.org > *Subject:* Re: Symlinks on Windows > >   > > Hello, > >

RE: Symlinks on Windows

2018-11-02 Thread Albertsen, Ketil
provided it – but now we are talking history! From: Pavel Lyalyakin Sent: 1 November, 2018 17:49 To: Bengt Nilsson Cc: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: Symlinks on Windows Hello, On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 6:39 PM, Bengt Nilsson mailto:bengt.nilsson.exter...@veoneer.com>> wrote: Hi! We

Re: Symlinks on Windows

2018-11-01 Thread Pavel Lyalyakin
Hello, On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 6:39 PM, Bengt Nilsson wrote: > Hi! > > We have a SVN-server running on Windows and there we get problem with > symlinks. > > If we put up a SVN-server on a Linux-server would that work better with > the symlinks although the clients (TortoiseSVN) are on Windows? >

Re: Symlinks on Windows

2018-11-01 Thread Branko Čibej
On 01.11.2018 16:39, Bengt Nilsson wrote: > > Hi! > > We have a SVN-server running on Windows and there we get problem with > symlinks. > What problem? The server should work just fine on Windows and it doesn't use symlinks for anything. > If we put up a SVN-server on a Linux-server would that wo

Re: symlinks on Windows

2013-11-07 Thread Thorsten Schöning
Guten Tag Branko Čibej, am Donnerstag, 7. November 2013 um 11:23 schrieben Sie: > IMO it's a lot easier to just document the restriction on > creating symlinks on Windows. It's not that bad; it's a (group) > policy setting, which can be managed by IT admins for large > deployments. I

Re: symlinks on Windows

2013-11-07 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 4:24 AM, Thorsten Schöning wrote: > Guten Tag Ben Reser, > am Donnerstag, 7. November 2013 um 09:46 schrieben Sie: > >> I think nobody has put the effort into figuring out the appropriate way of >> dealing with this. The obvious thing to do would be to fall back to the >> c

Re: symlinks on Windows

2013-11-07 Thread Branko Čibej
On 07.11.2013 11:36, Philip Martin wrote: > Ben Reser writes: > >> On 11/5/13 8:52 AM, Randy Defauw wrote: >>> Any thoughts regarding supporting symlinks on Windows? Windows has >>> supported >>> symlinks since Vista: >>> >>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365680(v=vs.

Re: symlinks on Windows

2013-11-07 Thread Philip Martin
Ben Reser writes: > On 11/5/13 8:52 AM, Randy Defauw wrote: >> Any thoughts regarding supporting symlinks on Windows? Windows has supported >> symlinks since Vista: >> >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365680(v=vs.85).aspx >> >> Supporting cross-platform symlinks whe

Re: symlinks on Windows

2013-11-07 Thread Branko Čibej
On 07.11.2013 10:24, Thorsten Schöning wrote: > Guten Tag Ben Reser, > am Donnerstag, 7. November 2013 um 09:46 schrieben Sie: > >> I think nobody has put the effort into figuring out the appropriate way of >> dealing with this. The obvious thing to do would be to fall back to the >> current behav

Re: symlinks on Windows

2013-11-07 Thread Thorsten Schöning
Guten Tag Ben Reser, am Donnerstag, 7. November 2013 um 09:46 schrieben Sie: > I think nobody has put the effort into figuring out the appropriate way of > dealing with this. The obvious thing to do would be to fall back to the > current behavior if the permission isn't available. Subversion cou

Re: symlinks on Windows

2013-11-07 Thread Ben Reser
On 11/5/13 8:52 AM, Randy Defauw wrote: > Any thoughts regarding supporting symlinks on Windows? Windows has supported > symlinks since Vista: > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365680(v=vs.85).aspx > > Supporting cross-platform symlinks where possible will ease some c