Linux – Do symbolic link files survive SVN

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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.

  1. Will the symbolic link file survive?

  2. If the symbolic link file is made up of a relative path, will it work "everywhere" a checkout is done?

  3. Are there gotchas?

Best Answer

In general, Yes.

However, some clients don't work with symbolic links properly. Subclipse, for the Eclipse IDE, creates directories instead of symlinks.

So it's best to make sure your client is doing it right before getting into development.

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