RE: how to make svn _follow_ symbolic links?

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> From: Misha Aizatulin [mailto:avatar_at_hot.ee]
> Sent: 22 July 2009 14:59
> To: Blair Zajac
> Cc: Les Mikesell; Ryan Schmidt; users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: how to make svn _follow_ symbolic links?
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> Let me summarise a bit. I guess we are mainly discussing two
> questions:
>
> 1. Can link following be useful?
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> 2. Can link following be dangerous?
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> As to the first question, I think my scenario illustrates
> that pretty
> well: two repositories, A and B, and a file bib that I would
> like to commit to both of them. I cannot refer from A to B
> and back because of access restrictions and because I
> wouldn't like the health of one repository to depend on the other.

I have been following this discussion a little and what it's really not clear to me is this "health" issue.

You want repository A to store a symlink to a file in a working copy of repository B. So although repository A is fine I cannot use a working copy of A if I don't have a working copy of B. Is that correct? So basically A may be sane but depends on B, which to me it's... Insane :-)

I always wanted my repositories to be independet, as in a working copy can stand alone. That's why, if I need third-party or external bits, I would use svn:external (which is what they are for).

I understand, I think, what you would like to achive, and I also understand why, but I simply think it's wrong. It reminds me another recent thread about taking some files out of Subversion but leaving them in the WC, in ALL WCs. The guy wanted Subversion to do that for him, but it's not a version control system's job to do that.

Giulio

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