On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:04:52 -0500 Charles Duffy <cduffy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Example time! > > There's a plugin for Bzr which adds support for Cygwin-compatible > symlink support on Windows. (IIRC, this involves monkey-patching some of > the Python standard library bits). > > Now, this is something which is *proposed* as a feature to be merged > into upstream bzr, and it may happen at some point. That said, when I > have a Windows-using coworker who wants to check out a repository that > has symlinks in it (with his win32-native, no-cygwin-required bzr > upstream binary), I don't need to tell him to go download and build bzr > from a third party; instead, I just need to tell him to run a single > command to check out the plugin in question into the bzr plugins folder. > > From an end-user convenience perspective, it's a pretty significant win. You'll need a better example than that. Git has supported a version of Cygwin-compatible symlink support on Windows for quite some time. And no plugins were needed. Sean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html