Re: VCS comparison table

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:04:52 -0500
Charles Duffy [off-list ref] wrote:

Example time!

There's a plugin for Bzr which adds support for Cygwin-compatible 
symlink support on Windows. (IIRC, this involves monkey-patching some of 
the Python standard library bits).

Now, this is something which is *proposed* as a feature to be merged 
into upstream bzr, and it may happen at some point. That said, when I 
have a Windows-using coworker who wants to check out a repository that 
has symlinks in it (with his win32-native, no-cygwin-required bzr 
upstream binary), I don't need to tell him to go download and build bzr 
from a third party; instead, I just need to tell him to run a single 
command to check out the plugin in question into the bzr plugins folder.

 From an end-user convenience perspective, it's a pretty significant win.

You'll need a better example than that.  Git has supported a version
of Cygwin-compatible symlink support on Windows for quite some time.
And no plugins were needed.

Sean