SVN符号链接对Linux和Windows透明

Question

This is how my SVN looks like now

SVN
 + trunk
     + src
     + pom.xml

and I want to add

 + trunk_alternative_pom
     + src -> SVN/trunk/src
     + pom.xml

so when I update the project (in Linux or Windows), it will look like both "src" folders are completely unrelated, although behind the scenes (inside SVN) they are the same.

It's important that the original trunk has not a single byte modified. Assume I can't add pom_alternative.xml to trunk and run Maven with a -f argument,

Answer 1

You will need to use svn:externals to point trunk_alternative_pom/src at SVN/trunk/src

If all clients were using a UNIX-like OS (Linux, MacOS, etc.) you could use a symlink, but SVN on Windows doesn't support symlinks (and NTFS only started supporting it with Windows Vista).