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Re: JavaHL: ClientNotifyCallback reports unexpected kind "file" for symlinks

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 23:01:41 +0200

On 19.05.2015 15:59, Marc Strapetz wrote:
> When recursively adding a directory "test" which contains another
> directory "sub" and a symlink "sub.link" pointing to "sub", "sub.link"
> is reported with kind=file where I would expect to receive
> kind=symlink. The problem can be reproduced by following code snippet,
> using quite recent 1.9 binaries:

This is expected. The symlink type is currently not used by the client
library. It is used internally in the working copy library, IIRC, but
the client APIs always report symlinks as files.

-- Brane
Received on 2015-05-19 23:01:53 CEST

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