Re: symlinks in 'svn status'

gerhard oettl wrote:

> is there a speceal reason why symlinks are shown as
> ? = not under version control in 'svn status'
> instead of handle them as I = ignored

To find out that the file _is_ a symlink involves more than opening the
directory and listing the contents (which is the current code path). As
far as Subversion is concerned (at that point in the processing), this
is just the list of files that aren't already know about. Only when you
try and process a symlink (like when adding it), is the file itself
touched and at that point the code knows this is a symlink.

There has been a suggestion that there be a way to change errors into
warnings when processing files, perhaps through the --force option. Hence:

        svn add dir/*

would error out if anything in "dir" were a symlink (or other special
object in the filesystem), and

        svn add --force dir/*

would add all of the files in "dir" which were not special and warn
about those that were.

John

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