symbolic links are not exported correctly on Windows 10

[Massimo Poli]

Create a symbolic link to a file with mklink within your repository, for example:

mklink /path/to/link /path/to/target

Export the the repository:

svn export /path/to/repository /path/to/destination

Edit the file  /path/to/link, you will see a content similar to:

link  /path/to/target

In other words, the symbolic link is not "expanded". 

Symbolic links to folders are exported correctly.

[Daniel Sahlberg]

Den sön 1 aug. 2021 17:33Massimo Poli tramite TortoiseSVN <torto...@googlegroups.com> skrev:

Create a symbolic link to a file with mklink within your repository, for example:

mklink /path/to/link /path/to/target

Export the the repository:

svn export /path/to/repository /path/to/destination

Edit the file  /path/to/link, you will see a content similar to:

link  /path/to/target

In other words, the symbolic link is not "expanded". 

That is, unfortunately, the behavior of Subversion at this time. 

See the notes in the Subversion book:

https://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.tour.cycle.html#svn.tour.cycle.edit

Symbolic links to folders are exported correctly. 

I agree this feature would be desirable. You can reach out to the Subversion developers at the mailing list

http://subversion.apache.org/mailing-lists.html

It will not change anything right now but at least it is a vote for this feature. Best would be if someone could contribute the code, there is a shortage of Windows developers in Subversion. 

Kind regards, 

Daniel Sahlberg