title: Subversion checkout from a GitHub repository which contains symlinks
body: <p>I have a project hosted on GitHub and I use Git for source versioning.</p>
  
  <p>I have to pull the code on another platform but it can't have Git, so I am using <a href="http://github.com/blog/626-announcing-svn-support" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Subversion Support</a> of GitHub to checkout the code, but it doesn't handle symlinks.</p>
  
  <p>For example, on my machine I have a symlink :</p>
  
  <pre><code>sf -&gt; ../lib/vendor/symfony/data/web/sf
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But when the sources are updated on the remote platform, I have this :</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ svn up
  # updating sources...
  $ cat sf
  ../lib/vendor/symfony/data/web/sf
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any ideas?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update</strong></p>
  
  <p>If possible I want to avoid the script solution, other developers may also pull sources from Subversion for example.</p>