RE: Windows symlinks
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> From: Jakub Narebski [mailto:jnareb@gmail.com]
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> Patrick Higgins <Patrick.Higgins@cexp.com> writes:
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> Second, the problem there can be _only_ if your repository contains
> (or contained) symlinks, and then it is your own damn fault.
Agreed. The first thing we started working on was getting symlinks out of our repositories. Unfortunately, we chose to use them because we are using broken development tools that don't support proper modularity. We found the best way to get the IDE's compilation to work was to symlink shared code into each project. It's a nasty solution, but it was the only one that worked. Clearcase made this solution possible. As powerful and flexible as git is, it would have left us out in the cold in this situation.
> I don't know how Cygwin, or msysGit deals with symlinks in a wirking
> directory
msysGit just created a file with the target of the symlink as it's contents, but its tools didn't know how to make use of it. I think Cygwin did the same thing, but ls, cat, and all the other Cygwin tools were able to make use of it. I tried to run the Java compiler over a symlinked file and it didn't work, though.
Copying files at build time is an interesting idea, but since the point was to get an IDE's build system to work, I don't I'll have the level of control I would need to make this work.