On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Keith Moore > <keith.mo...@securency.com> > I tried this on Windows 7 Enterprise with > TortoiseSVN 1.6.8, Subversion 1.6.11 and got the error message "svn: > Symbolic links are not supported on this platform". Now, I know these > error messages can be a bit cryptic so I googled this one and it actually > means that symbolic links are not supported on Window 7 ;o)
Windows 7 DOES support symbolic links. However, you can't simply create a symbolic link. You first have to be an administrator. Then, bump up your console window to an Administrator console window. Oh, and you can only create symbolic links on NTFS file systems. I know many people whose boot partition is still FAT32. I'm not sure if you can use Tortoise for this, or you must use the command line tool since you have to be able to bump your tool up to administrator level. You have to do this although you already may be an administrator on the current machine. It wouldn't surprise me (considering all the limits: You need to be an administrator, your current shell must have admin privileges set, you need to be Vista or Windows 7, and you need NTFS) that the various Subversion for Windows clients don't support symlinks. My personal preference is not to use symlinks in my source repository. Instead, depend upon the build system or the installation system to create any needed symlinks. -- David Weintraub qazw...@gmail.com
