Daniel James wrote:
Oh dear. Of course, windows doesn't have symbolic links - I was thinking of the faked ones on Cygwin. I really shouldn't post in the middle of the night. So Bitkeeper and Perforce certainly don't support them. Although apparently ClearCase implements them by intercepting file system calls, but ClearCase isn't really appropriate for open source projects.
Sorry for jumping in, but I am sucessfully using a kind of "symlinks" on windows for this. Are you aware of the linkd command? (Also see junction points.) You can symlink directories with this. And it is so low level, that normal file IO goes through it. However support in the GUI is very limited in that you cannot by any means distinguish between a real and a linked directory. The command line however is different, because the dir command displays them with extra marks. I am currently using this to switch part of the boost tree to a local repository of mine. Roland