At Fri, 2 Nov 2018 10:07:08 +0000 "Albertsen, Ketil" <ketil.albert...@nordicsemi.no> wrote:
> > > So where did this idea about "...¦ working copies on systems such as > Windows that do not support symlinks" come from? NTFS supports symlinks, > and has supported it for many years. If my memory is correct, it wasn't > avialable in the CLI interface, cmd.exe, utntil long after the file system > API provided it - but now we are talking history! MS-Windows file systems (FAT, NTFS) don't support POSIX-style symlinks. There is some hack that *sort of* implements *something like* a symlink, but it is not really the same. > > From: Pavel Lyalyakin <pavel.lyalya...@visualsvn.com> > Sent: 1 November, 2018 17:49 > To: Bengt Nilsson <bengt.nilsson.exter...@veoneer.com> > Cc: users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: Re: Symlinks on Windows > > Hello, > > On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 6:39 PM, Bengt Nilsson > <bengt.nilsson.exter...@veoneer.com<mailto:bengt.nilsson.exter...@veoneer.com>> > 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? > Or do we have to have clients on Linux as well? > > Please, see SVNBook | Versioning Symbolic > Links<http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.8/svn.tour.cycle.html> (scroll down to > the "Versioning Symbolic Links" section). Is this what you are asking about? > > If the answer is "yes", then the platform where the SVN server runs does not > matter. You need the clients to be on Linux, but the server can be on Windows. > > -- > With best regards, > Pavel Lyalyakin > VisualSVN Team > > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services hel...@deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services
