Symlinks support status?

Dov Feldstern dfeldstern at fastimap.com
Sat Nov 3 15:12:31 CDT 2007


Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> Dov Feldstern wrote:
> 
>> I see that one of the new features of 0.9.5 is "Handle symlinks on 
>> systems without symlink support". What exactly does this mean?
> 
> It means that symlinks won't be corrupted if a working directory that 
> should contain symlinks is used on a filesystem that doesn't support them.
> 
> 	<b

Thanks for the reply!

I was hoping for more support though :( . Does anyone have any plans for 
enhancing this support, to actually make repositories with symlinks 
usable, maybe along the lines of what I described in my original post?


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