[darcs-devel] symlink suport

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

> I've been following darcs for awhile and have recently started using it. I was 
> wondering if the lack of symlink support is a philosophical thing, or if it 
> just hasn't been added yet.

It has a number of minor design issues (such as whether to allow
absolute symlinks and symlinks pointing outside the Darcs tree in a
darcs repo, and how to deal with challenged filesystems), but mostly
we just haven't done it.  There's no fundamental objections to
implementing them.

Please feel free to file a feature request on bugs at .

> Subversion has this note on their site, maybe this approach would
> work for darcs?

No, subversion's design is very different from Darcs'.  There's very
little we can learn from them and apply directly to Darcs.

                                        Juliusz