Cygwin SVN symbolic link checkout broken

Question

I've installed the latest version of Cygwin on Vista with SVN, Make and GCC in the installation. When I SVN checkout from a repository with some symbolic links in it, the symbolic links are not converted to symbolic links on Cygwin, rather they are just left as regular ascii files with "link ../../blah/blah" inside them.

SVN proplist of the symbolic link files says they are svn:special and when I check out from the same repository on Ubuntu it all works as desired.

Any hints would be appreciated.

Regards

Answer 1

Are you sure you're running Cygwin's svn? (you can check with 'which svn')

If you happen to be running the win32 svn.exe you'll get the win32 behavior on Cygwin as well (happened to me).