[JENKINS-30549] Symlink checkouts are not being preserved

I have symlinks checked into svn. When a do a svn checkout from the command line, they are treated as symlinks. When I use jenkins to check them out, they are converted into text files, with the contents being the correct symlink pointers. I need them to be symlinks again.

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Originally reported by aflat, imported from: Symlink checkouts are not being preserved

• status: Open
  
• priority: Minor
  
• component(s): subversion-plugin
  
• resolution: Unresolved
  
• votes: 0
  
• watchers: 2
  
• imported: 20251212-090250
  

Raw content of original issue

I have symlinks checked into svn. When a do a svn checkout from the command line, they are treated as symlinks. When I use jenkins to check them out, they are converted into text files, with the contents being the correct symlink pointers. I need them to be symlinks again.

environment

```
Subversion plugin: 2.5.3

Jenkins version: 1.620

java 1.7.0

Master: centos 6.5

Slave centos 6.5
```