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[Josef "Jeff" Sipek]

On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 05:21:21PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 02:33:09PM -0400, Josef "Jeff" Sipek wrote:
> > > > - regular - symlinks - ...?
> > > 
> > > That's it. Personally, I'd prefer not to support symlinks because they're
> > > more trouble than they're worth.
> >  
> > In what way? The only thing I can think of is accidental creation of cycles
> > in the working dir. (I know someone who messed his SVN repo up with a
> > symlink to '.'.) But if care is taken for hg to never follow links
> > everything should be fine.
> 
> There are lots of complexity downsides. Doesn't matter though, we're
> still going to support symlinks.

Makes sense, and good :)

> Please see the SymlinkPlan page on
> the wiki.

That's how I started looking into this to begin with.

Jeff.

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