How to make a branch on Windows of a repository containing symlink?

Alexander Belchenko bialix at ukr.net
Mon Feb 8 09:44:05 GMT 2010


Martin Pool пишет:
> On 6 February 2010 15:14, Baptiste Lepilleur
> <baptiste.lepilleur at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for letting me know this limitation of bzr. I'll stick with
>> subversion for this branch as it will be easier for me to manage.
> 
> This is <https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/81689>; you can
> subscribe or mark it as affecting you (quasi-vote) if you like.
> 
> It looks like the two options proposed there are:
> 
> 1- just skip them
> 2- make Windows symlink-like things
> 3- and I guess another is to write a plain file with the contents of the link
> 
> It seems to me that if we can do filtered views then we should be able
> to do something similar with 1.
> 
> If I get to do this, I'd probably change the wt and treetransform to
> use a Transport at least for making symlinks, so that we have a
> central point to turn them off on unix for testing, etc.

I guess 99% of windows users will be happy with either 1 or 3.




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