<div class="gmail_quote">2010/2/7 Martin Pool <<a href="mailto:mbp@canonical.com">mbp@canonical.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 </blockquote><div> I would recommend a lot of caution if/when going with option 2. Options 2 is filesystem dependent and will therefore break a lot of existing use cases. Here are a few use cases that I can think of that would be issue for me: - I frequently copy project tree on USB key to work on another machine. They tend to have FAT32 filesystem. - Project tree hosted on a network drive, but using bzr from Windows (for multiplatform "simultaneous" compilation) - Few tools on Windows (are likely to) handle symlink correctly (e.g. messed up archive, project tree copy/move...). Many existing python scripts will likely have issue with symlinks too. - Unless I'm mistaken, this feature is not supported by Windows XP. I would tend to (slightly) prefer option 1 (skip file) over option 3 because it would result in clearer errors, as long as there is a way to see the list of skipped symblinks. On the other hand option 3 may provide a more intuitive interface to suppress/modify a symlink, but this is low priority use case comparing to being able to work on a repo with symblink. Given that you would likely not be able to test your changes one can only wonder if modifying/suppressing symlinks should be supported on Windows. It is important that such branch made on Windows, when pushed, can be branched from by Unix user without issues (e.g. with symlink), generate correct patches... Baptiste. </div></div>