On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 09:00:11AM +0100, Michael Beyer wrote: > Dear Subversion-Developer-Team, > > I'm using subversion on a linux platform and I want to checkout symbolic > links on a FAT32 partition (USB-Stick). I know, FAT32 doesn't support > symlinks. But instead of an error message while running svn co, it would be > nice to have an option to disable symbolic link creation. I mean, I want the > linux svn client to ignore the "svn:special" property, similar to an windows > svn client. > > I hope, you can help me. I spent several hours to find a solution.
This is an open feature request: http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2472 You can add yourself to the Cc list of that issue to be informed about progress. I agree such a feature would be useful. I doubt anyone is actively working on this, though. A workaround you could try (haven't tested this myself) is to compile a subversion client without HAVE_SYMLINK symlink defined in subversion/svn_private_config.h. Run configure as usual, and then remove the line that says "#define HAVE_SYMLINK 1" before running make. This should give you a client that doesn't support symlinks at all and you can use this client for working copies on the FAT32 partition. Maybe that will help.
