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Create Soft Link in Subversion

voyageur | April 18, 2008 - 2 years 19 weeks

Subversion supports symbolic link, as stated in http://subversion.tigris.org/. Here is the quote:  

  • Versioning of symbolic links

    Unix users can place symbolic links under version control. The links are recreated in Unix working copies, but not in win32 working copies.

    • it's simple to test this. In a directory where you have svn code checked out, do

    % ln -s file file_link
    % svn add file_link
    % svn ci

    Then from somewhere else update or checkout this portion of svn, and you will see the soft link exist.