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Re: bug: symbolic links not recognized as such

From: Mark Phippard <MarkP_at_softlanding.com>
Date: 2004-12-06 20:28:24 CET

Jeff Bowden <jlb@houseofdistraction.com> wrote on 12/06/2004 01:36:08 PM:

> Sorry if this is the wrong forum but I couldn't figure out how to enter
> a bug report in the issue tracker so here goes:
>
> Subclipse doesn't properly handle symbolic links. I have a project with

> some symbolic links under version control. Subversion itself handles
> this just fine but subclipse keeps wanting to commit files it finds
> through the symlink even though they are already versioned under another

> directory. In case that's not clear, here's an example:
>
> trunk/Project/foo/blahblah.txt
> trunk/Project/bar/foo-inst -> ../foo
>
> that is, foo-inst is a symlink which points to foo. If I checkout
> Project and run svn status on the working copy it says everything is
> up-to-date, but if I right-click on Project in eclipse and select Team |

> Commit... it says Project/bar/foo-inst/blahblah.txt is an unversioned
> resource and wants to add it to the repository.

What is the Subclipse version?

Could you describe what you think it is doing? If I had to guess, I would
say that it is following the symlink to the target and seeing that file as
unversioned?

Mark

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