Good luck using hard links on Windows without accidents. Apart from sarcasm, SVN branches use suffer-on-merge: creating a branch means immediate technical debt

Good luck using hard links on Windows without accidents. Apart from sarcasm, SVN branches use suffer-on-merge: creating a branch means immediate technical debt of the most useless kind, which is more expensive than any inefficient file copying. From the same manual: "To perform a sync merge, first make sure your working copy of the branch is “clean”—that it has no local modifications reported by svn status." "One special kind of flexibility is the ability to have a working copy containing files and directories with a mix of different working revision numbers. Subversion working copies do not always correspond to any single revision in the repository; they may contain files from several different revisions."