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symlink on windows

Asked by ruddy32

I get the following error while updating my project:
   bzr: ERROR: Unable to create symlink 'crm_building' on this platform

It seems that bazaar try to create a symbolic link. I'm working under Windows XP. Is it a bug from Bazaar?

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ChrisD (xuard) said : 		#1

I have the same problem.

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THirsch (thirsch) said : 		#2

I have the same problem and would love to see an 'integrated' solution.

- at least for Vista/Win7, as there is the possibility of real symlinks - see http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html for an util allready making use of it).

- Bazaar Symlinks for Win32 Plugin seems to be outdated/unmaintained and 'buggy'

- in the plugin doc text i found "The recommended solution for symlinks on Windows is to run bzr under Cygwin" offering a solution to this. But this will add complexity to the windows install... =;-(
(Thus hindering me to force all of my coworkers to use it right away.... - we want to control some asterisk configs/installations from our windows workstations, but currently can't, because of this restriction).

is there an option '--ignore-symlinks' or elst that I am unaware of to get get a checkout/branch without the symlinks?
Regards
Thomas

I found

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Martin Pool (mbp) said : 		#3

Hi, this is an open bug 81689. At the moment using cygwin is the best workaround I know of. If you can in that bug point to the MSDN documentation to make symlinks or even better some python code to do it, that would help.

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