Re: [Monotone-devel] symlinks support [Was: Future of monotone]

[Nuno Lucas]

On Jan 28, 2008 10:06 AM, Patrick Georgi <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:27:57 +0100, Lapo Luchini <address@hidden> wrote:
> > AFAIK Windows doesn't really have anything close to symlinks (natively).
> Vista has (on NTFS, but who actually uses FAT for the hard disks these
> days?), and uses them to fix the issues around the localisation of User and
> Program directories, eg. in German Windows Vista, "Programme" is a symlink
> to "Program Files", "Dokumente und Einstellungen" is a symlink to "Users",
> for backward compatibility to older naming conventions while providing more
> consistency now.

Since Windows 2000 (NTFS v3.0) there are "Junction Points" [1] which
are, more or less, like symbolic links. But many Windows applications
(including Explorer) have problems with them. Vista has a better
version of this [2].

I would be happy if monotone would just support symlinks on the
filesystems that can have them.
Something like ignoring symlinks when it can't use them, would be
enough for me. At least it will allow anyone to checkout a source
tree, even if not 100% correct. The same could be said about mixing
files with lower and uppercase on case-insensitive filesystems (warn
the user and ignore them).

This ignore thing has another place where it should be used: ignore
missing files.
Why should one have to be forced to solve a missing file problem
before doing any other operation not involving this files?


Regards,
~Nuno Lucas

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link


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