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Do symbolic link files survive SVN?

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Mar 15, 202626672 views

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Let's say I create a symbolic link file inside an SVN managed path, commit the path to SVN, and later checkout the path. Will the symbolic link file survive? If the symbolic link file is made up of a relative path, will it work "everywhere" a checkout is done? Are there gotchas?

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From the Subversion Features page: Symbolic links can be versioned. Unix users can place symbolic links under version control. The links are recreated in Unix working copies, but not in win32 working copies. Yes As long as permissions aren't changed…

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Do symbolic link files survive SVN?

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