On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Thorsten Schöning <tschoen...@am-soft.de> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm working heavily with Windows junctions in my development > environment, meaning that e.g. I check out a working copy in an > Eclipse workspace using Subclipse and afterwards create a junction to > my httpd cgi-bin directory. Please note that I do not link deeply into > the working copy but create the junction to the working copy root. One > example: The directory ...\Eclipse\Perl\some_project contains my > working copy checked out using Subclipse, afterwards I manually create > ...\httpd\cgi-bin\somewhere\some_project as a junction to the > some_project folder in my Eclipse workspace. > > This allowed me to use Subclipse within Eclipse and TortoiseSVN in > Windows Explorer depending on what I need to work on in my web > application, which gets served by the current code base developed in > Eclipse. This worked without any problems for years now with older > versions of Subversion, but starting with 1.8.0 I get the following > error: > > svn: E200007: Symbolic links are not supported on this platform > > This is not bug 4383, my client doesn't crash, it simply shows me the > error message. Besides that, the bug's status is still new, but the > changelog for 1.8.1 mentioned it as fixed. > > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4383 > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/tags/1.8.1/CHANGES >
Reading symbolic links on Windows Vista and later is implemented on trunk in r1501251 [1]: [[[ Implement reading symbolic links on Windows Vista or later. This fix issues with working copies located in symlinked folders. ]]] Maybe it worth to backport this change to 1.8.x to fix reported issue? [1] http://svn.apache.org/r1501251 -- Ivan Zhakov CTO | VisualSVN | http://www.visualsvn.com
