Comment 9 for bug 81689

I would love to have an option like --ignore-symlinks as well to allow at least for a checkout/branch that I can work on (with knowledge about the missing symlinks)

Second: On Vista and Windows7 there IS support for real symbolic links.
There is a great tool (with some documentation) out there, that is freely available (ln.exe and LinkShellExtension at http://www.schinagl.priv.at/) and the author (Hermann Schinagl - Hermann.Schinagl (at) gmx.net) may be able to direct you to some MSDN or other source of information (or even his source code....)
Sorry, I am not a programmer and could not lend a helping hand.
All your current work is greatly appreciated (I love bazaar).
Please keep on providing and enhancing this excellent work.
Thomas