VCS comparison table
Sean
seanlkml at sympatico.ca
Wed Oct 18 22:29:45 BST 2006
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:04:52 -0500
Charles Duffy <cduffy at spamcop.net> wrote:
> Example time!
>
> There's a plugin for Bzr which adds support for Cygwin-compatible
> symlink support on Windows. (IIRC, this involves monkey-patching some of
> the Python standard library bits).
>
> Now, this is something which is *proposed* as a feature to be merged
> into upstream bzr, and it may happen at some point. That said, when I
> have a Windows-using coworker who wants to check out a repository that
> has symlinks in it (with his win32-native, no-cygwin-required bzr
> upstream binary), I don't need to tell him to go download and build bzr
> from a third party; instead, I just need to tell him to run a single
> command to check out the plugin in question into the bzr plugins folder.
>
> From an end-user convenience perspective, it's a pretty significant win.
You'll need a better example than that. Git has supported a version
of Cygwin-compatible symlink support on Windows for quite some time.
And no plugins were needed.
Sean
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