Re: Symlink handling in svn status broken

Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com> writes:

> Try this:
>
> svnadmin create repo
> svn co file://`pwd`/repo wc
> svn mkdir wc/trunk
> svn ci -m "" wc
> cd wc
> mv trunk ..
> ln -s ../trunk trunk
> svn st
>
> The key thing is to be in the wc directory which has a .svn/entries
> file that says it should have a child directory named trunk. Trunk
> gets moved elsewhere and replaced with a symlink, then when you do an
> svn st, it thinks that trunk is a file but should be a directory, so
> it reports it as a collision.

I'm not sure that qualifies as a bug, you are disrupting the versined
filesystem. Subversion assumes that versioned files are files and
that versioned directories are directories. If you deliberately break
those assumptions it's not surprising things don't work.

-- 
Philip Martin
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