Dear Vincent, I believe you would actually be able to do a "file external", see the reference to the SVN book already provided by Stefan. You might want to pin this to a specific revision and/or make sure to update the URL if you want to create a branch in the repository.
That said, proper symlink support on Windows is very much a feature that would improve Subversion on Windows. I know it require specific permissions and Git already has some support for it but I have not looked into the details. If this is something you would like to look into, [email protected] is the proper place to bring it up. Kind regards, Daniel tisdag 17 februari 2026 kl. 12:52:03 UTC+1 skrev Vincent Belaïche: > Dear Stefan, > Thank you for your reply. Actually externals won't help, as I needed > symlinks inside the same project. > I guess that probably this is not the right forum to raise this question, > and this has more to do with the core SVN project. > BR, > Vincent. > > PS : FYI my use of symlinks is that I have written a LaTeX package > (makegobbler), the related project contains a test bench and I have several > tests test-A test-B and test-C corresponding to several ways to produce the > same output. I am using a LaTeX reference file tref-A to generate the > expected output of test-A in order to test that the package works properly, > and for test-B and test-C, as exactly the same output is expected, the > tref-B and tref-C references are just symlinks on tref-A. Have a look ? : > svn checkout https://svn.gnu.org.ua/sources/latex-makegobbler/trunk > ./makegobbler > > > > > Le lundi 16 février 2026 à 19:16:09 UTC+1, Stefan a écrit : > >> Sorry, but Subversion does not support symlinks on Windows. >> However, you might be able to use externals instead: >> https://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.externals.html >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TortoiseSVN" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tortoisesvn/49c57f8a-179c-444f-957e-a7e2e2c01cdcn%40googlegroups.com.
