title: Follow symlinks in SVN
body: <p>I have a linux directory (and don't need any windows checkout):</p>
  
  <pre><code>/home/me/projects/project1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In this project, I need SVN (1.8.8) to follow a symlink "link1":</p>
  
  <pre><code>/home/me/projects/project1/link1/&lt;some_directories_and_files&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But SVN won't let me do that, it just add <code>link1</code> but not its content. If I try to add its content, I get an error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>svn add link1/*
  svn: E145001: Can't schedule an addition of '/home/me/projects/project1/link1/first_directory' below a not-directory node
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried converting link1 to hard link but I can't do that either:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ln /path/to/my/linked/directory link1
  ln: ‘/path/to/my/linked/directory’: hard link not allowed for directory
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any idea? How do you handle this kind of configuration? I just need to commit everything from <code>/home/me/projects/project1</code> from a simple <code>svn commit</code></p>