Comment 6 for bug 291361

So bzr-svn simply doesn't support Windows symlinks for now?

As far as I can now tell, 'bzr co <url-to-svn-repository>' is how you're supposed to checkout a Subversion repository under Bazaar. That's not obvious and it wasn't my initial assumption -- see commands at the top of the thread.

I would suggest a brief tutorial that shows the minimum operations needed to work with an svn repo in bzr.
* Checkout the svn repo: bzr-svn's equivalent of 'svn co URL'
* Update from svn: ~= 'svn up'
* Make 2-3 changes in local bzr repo: some mixture of 'bzr add', 'bzr ci', 'bzr diff', etc
* Commit to svn: 'svn ci'