How to treat a symbolic link as a directory in Mercurial?

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As of 0.9.4, when adding a symbolic link Mercurial keeps track of the link itself, and not the file or directories it points to. However, there are cases when it is desirable to keep track of the files pointed to by the symbolic link.

How can I force Mercurial to treat the symbolic link to a directory as a regular directory?

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I don't think there's a way to do this when you're working with directories.

If you're working with mercurial 1.3 or later you could try using the new subrepo support, that will let you have a repo track stuff ourside of it on the local disk, but it's not as seamless as a link would have been.

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