Re: Symlink handling in svn status broken

On 22.09.2005 11:06, Philip Martin wrote:

> 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.
>
Still, sometimes it's very useful to be able to relocate a part of a wc
(say, to a different partition), replacing it with a symlink. IMHO it
would be very nice if this would be supported.

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