How To Make A Symlink
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</p><h3 class="heading-h1"><a name="HowtoMakeaSymlink" class="anchorpoint"></a>How to Make a Symlink</h3><p class="paragraph"><strong class="bold">Contributor(s)</strong>: Dan Haig.</p><p class="paragraph">The very brief explanation of how to make a symlink in Subversion is that you need to checkout the repository (or concerned parts thereof) using command line on a unix server, create a symlink directory as per usual in unix, svn add the new symlink directory, then svn commit it.</p><p class="paragraph">It is not possible, so far as Doug Chestnut and I have determined after many trials, to make a symlink using the TortoiseSVN client or any other gui client we know of, whether Windows or Macintosh.</p><p class="paragraph">There is as of yet no general instructions in our documentation to explain how to work with subversion via command line; if you don't know how, you will need help to make the symlink anyway, so ask Than Garson (ndg8f) for help.
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