[Gllug] Moving from CVS

[Sarah Ewen]

> > going to subversion is pretty easy, if you want to.
> 
> how does subversion deal with symlinks? (as cvs doesnt)

IIRC, we did have a few problems with older versions of subversion;
in newer versions that problem has disappeared. I'm vague on the version
numbers off the top of my head but a bit of google should shed light on
it.

Indeed, from http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html I see:

Subversion 1.1 (and later) has the ability to put a symlink under
version control, via the usual svn add command.

Details: the Subversion repository has no internal concept of a symlink.
It stores a "versioned symlink" as an ordinary file with an
'svn:special' property attached. The svn client (on unix) sees the
property and translates the file into a symlink in the working copy.
Win32 has no symlinks, so a win32 client won't do any such translation:
the object appears as a normal file.

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So yes, it did used to be a pain, but no longer.

Sarah.
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