Trying to checkout an SVN repository on GNU/Linux (Debian) onto a mounted Samba share.
The repository contains symbolic links, and commandline "svn" halts with the following message:
I would have expected SVN to complain, but continue checkout nevertheless.svn: Can't create symbolic link '/path/to/file/in_my_svn_checkout/folder.txt.tmp': Operation not supported
I've found a mailing list entry that describes the problem:
SVN symbolic links and samba
"checkout --force" doesn't work
[SOLUTION]
Option #1:
Checkout the working copy locally on the GNU/Linux machine and then copy it over to the mounted Samba share.
Works, but I'd consider this a workaround.
Option #2:
Tell svn to continue nevertheless.
Unfortunately, I haven't yet found any way of doing so :/
to be continued...