symlinks

[artelogic]

Is there any chance that symlinks will work? Meaning, that they are transfered to the repository as symlinks and also checked out or updated as symlinks.

Thanks in advance
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[Senjuu]

Yes that is possible. You do this by attaching the "svn:special"-property to the symlink.

[goo...@artelogic.com]

Sorry, but that is not true. Symlinks are not cecked out as symlinks but as the file the symlink points to instead.

[goo...@artelogic.com]

Btw, I have tried with 1.11 and 1.10.

[Senjuu]

If you do not need it to be symlinks you could try externals but you should set specific revisionnumbers so that each revision will be as it was then.

[goo...@artelogic.com]

Can you really imagine that somebody who expressis verbis asks for checked out or updated symlinks does not need symlinks?
Obviously you can. Yes, surprisingly I need symlinks! ;)

[Senjuu]

I once asked a similar question and was statisfied with the hint to use externals. So I do not know whether you need or you only think you need symlinks

until I know for what you explicitly need them. The externals would also work on Windows.

[goo...@artelogic.com]

I do not work with source code here, but with financial data I need for my company.
The solution is to use Git. TortoiseGit does the job flawlessly.

Thanks.