[rfc] Windows symlink support

[Denys Duchier]

Jamie Wilkinson <jaq at spacepants.org> writes:

> Both these use cases are more easily solved using management agents like
> puppet or cfengine; pushing symlinks out from your RCS is a terrible way to
> handle this.  Usually one requires a tool run after the RCS push to modify
> the final layout.  In such a case I've found it best to let this tool do the
> linking itself, and leave the symlinks out of revision control.

and you can still work the same way with bzr, but there is no reason to impose
those limitations on the rest of us.

Cheers,

--Denys