On Apr 25, 2011, at 22:27, David Chapman wrote: > On 4/25/2011 7:38 PM, richard Cavell wrote: >> Further experimentation shows that symbolic links work (ln -s autobot a for >> the first command). Are hard links supposed to work? > > The hard link simply creates a new name for the file, which is probably > operating system dependent (you didn't describe the build process completely).
Yes he did: >>> From: richard Cavell >>> Sent: 04/26/11 10:36 AM >>> To: users@subversion.apache.org >>> Subject: How to create a link that works between OS X and Ubuntu >>> >>> Hi everyone. I'm developing a program on Ubuntu 10.10. The directory in >>> which my project lives is part of my PATH. The executable that is built is >>> called 'autobot'. >>> >>> I type: >>> >>> ln autobot a > Subversion won't know the difference between the name "autobot" and the name > "a"; each will look like an ordinary file. A symbolic link, however, is a > different object type and Subversion can store it as such. That's correct, and that was the problem. I was reading Richard's message trying to figure out why it wasn't working, and it's exactly that Subversion doesn't (can't) realize a hardlink is a link. Use symlinks if you want to store them in the repository as links.
