subversion and symlinks on windows for wordpress development

Question

Hi,

I'd like to use the method described here to use subversion for Wordpress development:

http://www.aaronwhitman.com/2010/01/subversion-repository-with-wordpress-external/

Does anyone know of linkd.exe will do the job for the symlinking part?

thanks!

Answer 1

linkd.exe and mklink can do this. Linkd.exe can be found here

mklink is available as standard on windows 2008. Note that mklink requires the /D argument specifically for symlinking folders