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Re: Symlink handling in svn status broken

From: Greg Hudson <ghudson_at_MIT.EDU>
Date: 2005-09-22 22:22:08 CEST

On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 14:29 -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> The versioned directory IS still a directory, it just has been moved and
> replaced with a symbolic link to the new location. Shouldn't subversion
> follow the symbolic link transparently to the versioned directory?

We version symlinks these days. To Subversion, this looks a lot like
the directory has been replaced with something else. (Although without
a corresponding "svn rm" and "svn add" it looks to Subversion like it
has been replaced incorrectly.)

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