title: Mercurial symlinks on Windows
body: <p>I've been googling for a while now but I was surprised to be unable to find an answer to this, quite simple, question.</p>
  
  <p>With mercurial 1.4, when I clone a repository on a windows client, symlinks appear as a file containing the path to the original file.</p>
  
  <p>I don't use symlinks extensively, but I do use them for shared lib handling (libpng.so ->libpng.so.2->libpng.so.2.43.0  for example) .</p>
  
  <p>The windows box is here only for testing, which means I'd be very hapy if the symlinks where actual copies of the original file, this would let me compile.</p>
  
  <p>I saw <a href="http://markmail.org/message/7d353ucvivhphvvk" rel="noreferrer">http://markmail.org/message/7d353ucvivhphvvk</a> which is basically the same question, but without any real answer.</p>