Michael L Brown wrote:
>I created a branch from a branch in order to do merging of code from a CVS
>repository that has changed since the SVN repository was created from the
>CVS files.
>
>But, one of the things I've done since the creation of the SVN tree is
>create some symbolic links. Within the branch the "svn update" works
>correctly such that working copies have the symbolically linked files
>created correctly.
>
>But, when I did a merge from the original branch to the special branch
>(that will wither on the tree once the merge is done), the file that was a
>symbolic link in the original branch turned into a file on the new branch,
>four bytes larger.
>
>The contents of the file is:
>
> cat PinnacleStatic/bin/-sparc/libstdc++.so.5
>
>It is really supposed to be:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 current code 18 Jun 14 16:01
>PinnacleStatic/bin/-sparc/libstdc++.so.5 -> libstdc++.so.5.0.5
>
>Why did the merge screw up? Is this a bug? I am not at SVN 1.2.
>
>
This is a known bug that exists in the 1.1.x series, but is fixed in 1.2. Please see:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2064
Brian
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Received on Tue Jun 21 17:15:09 2005