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Comment 10 for bug 81689

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John A Meinel (jameinel) wrote : Re: [Bug 81689] Re: Branches with symlinks can't be checked out on Windows

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THirsch wrote:
> 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
>
 I'm pretty sure the Windows symlinks only support directories as
targets, but maybe that changed?

John
=:->

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