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

[Gordon Tyler]

On 08/02/2010 4:44 AM, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> 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.

#2 looks like it would be "easy" on Vista/7:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link