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Does Subversion support symlinks?

April 26, 2017Subversion support symlinks

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Does Subversion support symlinks?

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Subversion does not currently support symlinks, and there are no concrete plans to support them. The obstacle has been that symbolic links are not portable across all the platforms Subversion runs on. Therefore, any design for symlink support has to account for how the symlinks will behave in a working copy checked out into an environment that doesn’t support symlinks. If you have a proposal, please share it with the developers at dev@subversion.tigris.org.

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Subversion 1.1 (and later) has the ability to put a symlink under version control, via the usual svn add command. Details: the Subversion repository has no internal concept of a symlink. It stores a “versioned symlink” as an ordinary file with an ‘svn:special’ property attached. The svn client (on unix) sees the property and translates the file into a symlink in the working copy. Win32 has no symlinks, so a win32 client won’t do any such translation: the object appears as a normal file.