Matt,

There's "symlinks" branch that does what you want
http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/timeline?r=symlinks

Though I haven't merged the latest Fossil changes into it yet.

Related discussion:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03402.html

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Dmitry Chestnykh

On Mar 11, 2011, at 5:30 AM, Matt Welland wrote:

> What is the plan for handling symlinks for fossil? My preference would
> be for fossil to treat links as a file. Storing the pointer would be
> great. Just ignoring links would also be fine by me. But actually
> traversing the links is not a good idea IMHO and is a real fossil
> killer. It is also not easy to work around.
> 
> Links are commonly used to point to large amounts of static data
> outside of a build area or to reference one piece of data in multiple
> places. In neither of these cases would I want my scm tool to traverse
> the links and add the data. A setting "ignore-links" would be an ok
> compromise.
> 
> Just my $0.02, thanks!


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