Alex Harford wrote:
> On 11/20/08, Vitaliy <spam@maksimov.org> wrote:
>> Alex Harford wrote:
>>  > - SVN can store symlinks.
>>
>>  What exactly is a symlink, in this context?
> 
> Ah... a Unix-ism.  A symbolic link that can point to another file
> somewhere else.  This is a soft-link rather than a hard-link.  I don't
> think Windows (NTFS?) has this feature so the point would be moot when
> running SVN on an MS platform.

NTFS 5.0

Windows XP:
> fsutil

---- Commands Supported ----

behavior        Control file system behavior
dirty           Manage volume dirty bit
file            File specific commands
fsinfo          File system information
hardlink        Hardlink management
objectid        Object ID management
quota           Quota management
reparsepoint    Reparse point management
sparse          Sparse file control
usn             USN management
volume          Volume management

----

reparsepoint roughly equals a symlink (I've never used fsutil though)

Unix 'ln' looks much friendlier.

-
Martin



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