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[Jelmer Vernooij <81689@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 16:46 +0000, Geoff wrote:
> Possible solution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link
The problem with NTFS symbolic links is that they require administrator
privileges, which makes them unusable in a lot of situations.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/81689

Title:
  Branches with symlinks can't be checked out on Windows

Status in Bazaar Version Control System:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Windows does not support symlinks but there is a plugin for bzr that
  emulates this behavior. If the plugin is installed then this works. I
  think this should be a core feature of bzr and not a plugin. Also
  displaying a stack trace is not a useful error message for the user
  so even if it is decided to keep it as a plugin this is not the
  correct behavior. When checking out a branch that uses symlinks on
  Windows the following exception is raised:

  bzr branch http://panoramicfeedback.com/opensource/bzr/be BugsEverywhere
  .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
  bzr: ERROR: exceptions.AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'symlink'

  Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "bzrlib\commands.pyc", line 626, in run_bzr_catch_errors
   File "bzrlib\commands.pyc", line 588, in run_bzr
   File "bzrlib\commands.pyc", line 292, in run_argv_aliases
   File "bzrlib\builtins.pyc", line 756, in run
   File "bzrlib\bzrdir.pyc", line 688, in sprout
   File "bzrlib\bzrdir.pyc", line 914, in create_workingtree
   File "bzrlib\workingtree.pyc", line 2113, in initialize
   File "bzrlib\transform.pyc", line 1008, in build_tree
   File "bzrlib\transform.pyc", line 1093, in new_by_entry
   File "bzrlib\transform.pyc", line 904, in new_symlink
   File "bzrlib\transform.pyc", line 318, in create_symlink
  AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'symlink'

  bzr 0.13.0candidate1 on python 2.4.4.final.0 (win32)
  arguments: ['c:\\Programme\\Bazaar\\bzr.exe', 'branch', 'http://panoramicfeedback.com/opensource/bzr/be', 'BugsEverywhere']

  ** please send this report to bazaar-ng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

  nia@client0055 /d
  $ bzr version
  Bazaar (bzr) 0.13.0candidate1
  Using python interpreter: c:\Programme\Bazaar\bzr.exe
  Using python standard library: c:\Programme\Bazaar\lib\library.zip
  Using bzrlib: c:\Programme\Bazaar\lib\library.zip\bzrlib