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I have a project on my Windows 7 machine that contains symlinks. When I try to commit the project to an SVN repository TortoiseSVN fails with "Symbolic links are not supported on this platform".
That's fine and I would like TortoiseSVN to ignore the symlinks. But how?
I played around with the ignore property but since in Windows symlinks have no special names or extensions (they just look like the file they're pointing to), and I couldn't succeed.
Now I found out that symlinks have the svn:special property. Now it's a question how one can ignore all special files... – Piedone – 2010-08-23T23:04:18.023
Another workaround would be to exclude 0 byte-sized "files". AFAIK filtering on file size is not supported by TortoiseSVN so maybe the best solution would be to write a script that adds all symlinks to the ignore list one by one... – Piedone – 2010-08-23T23:38:03.167