On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 4:14 AM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> But if it only stores a pointer, and requires the user to reconstruct the
> link, it's not terribly useful/friendly. The user would potentially have to
> replace fossil's placeholder pseudosymlink file with a link of his own
> (which he could point somewhere else than fossil thinks it "should" be). He
> might has well simply have a "post-checkout" script which sets up his
> symlinks for him. To me, that's the "proper"/"safest" way to handle
> symlinks in a repo (but i'm willing to accept being in the minority on that
> point).
>

On MS Windows, that is how it has to be done. Symlinks require the user be
an admin and use a special command that is separately installed.
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