converting svn repos with symbolic links

Benoit Boissinot bboissin at gmail.com
Mon Nov 27 20:20:51 UTC 2006


On 11/27/06, Faheem Mitha <faheem at email.unc.edu> wrote:
>
> Furthermore, I know that mercurial does not support soft (symbolic) links.
> However, does it support hard links, without any extra expenditure in
> space? Ie. if I make a hard link to a file in a repository and then commit
> the hard link, will hg recognise that it is a hard link to that file and
> recreate that hard link in the checkout?
>
No it won't do that, I don't think that the usual behaviour with
hardlinks for any UNIX application either. Hardlinks are seen as two
different files (and hg will break the hardlink when updating any of
the links)

regards,

Benoit



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