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Erik Cota-Robles commented on SVN-3570: --------------------------------------- I second Dmitry's request. Please add this functionality to SVN. Windows support for symlinks is now up to date albeit admin privilege is still required. Thanks. > Add support for Windows symlinks (junction points) > -------------------------------------------------- > > Key: SVN-3570 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-3570 > Project: Subversion > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: unknown > Affects Versions: all > Environment: Windows Vista > Reporter: Subversion Importer > Priority: Major > Fix For: blue-sky > > > {noformat:nopanel=true} > Starting with Windows Vista there is full support for all kinds of symlinks. > Even Windows XP does have partial support for > symlinks. > Currently subversion gives this error message when you try to submit symlinks > from Windows: > "Symbolic links are not supported on this platform" > Information regarding symlinks under Windows > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365680(VS.85).aspx > Remark, under Windows directory symlinks are called junction points and also > symlinks are working only on NTFS. > It could be helpful to read http://bugs.python.org/issue1578269 - specially > to be aware about the fact that by default only > Administrators can create symlinks. Anyway subversion should only try create > the symlink and if this fails to display an error > message indicating a solution to the user (assigning this privilege to normal > user). > {noformat} > Original issue reported by *intersol* -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)