On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 07:58, Humm, Markus <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > >> > While it is nice that you have concerns about my security in case I should >> > have to deal with malicious servers, >> > I would prefer to have a choice. Maybe some setting wich allows me, based >> > on the server URL (or if that's too >> > complicated for a start), to allow ../ in local externals paths or >> > disallow this. With such a setting, SVN would >> > seamlessly allow us to use our current directory layout while maintaining >> > the benefits of atimic checkins. > >> Excuse me, but given the layout requirements you seek, can you get away with >> symlinks? > > I'm not sure symlinks under XP are powerfull enough and the use of them is > not easy enough for my colloeagues. > I'd really prefer a externals based solution.
True symlinks don't even exist on XP.
