[jira] [Commented] (SVN-3570) Add support for Windows symlinks (junction points)

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Erik Cota-Robles commented on SVN-3570:
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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*



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