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Re: bug: symbolic links not recognized as such

From: Mark Phippard <MarkP_at_softlanding.com>
Date: 2004-12-07 20:52:45 CET

I entered issue 193 on your behalf to look into this.

http://subclipse.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=193

Mark

Jeff Bowden <jlb@houseofdistraction.com> wrote on 12/06/2004 06:17:11 PM:

> Mark Phippard wrote:
>
> >Jeff Bowden <jlb@houseofdistraction.com> wrote on 12/06/2004 01:36:08
PM:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Sorry if this is the wrong forum but I couldn't figure out how to
enter
> >>a bug report in the issue tracker so here goes:
> >>
> >>Subclipse doesn't properly handle symbolic links. I have a project
with
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >>some symbolic links under version control. Subversion itself handles
> >>this just fine but subclipse keeps wanting to commit files it finds
> >>through the symlink even though they are already versioned under
another
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >>directory. In case that's not clear, here's an example:
> >>
> >>trunk/Project/foo/blahblah.txt
> >>trunk/Project/bar/foo-inst -> ../foo
> >>
> >>that is, foo-inst is a symlink which points to foo. If I checkout
> >>Project and run svn status on the working copy it says everything is
> >>up-to-date, but if I right-click on Project in eclipse and select Team
|
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >>Commit... it says Project/bar/foo-inst/blahblah.txt is an unversioned

> >>resource and wants to add it to the repository.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >What is the Subclipse version?
> >
> >
>
> Was using 0.9.23 but I just updated to 0.9.24 and confirmed that the
> problem also exists in that version.
>
> >Could you describe what you think it is doing? If I had to guess, I
would
> >say that it is following the symlink to the target and seeing that file
as
> >unversioned?
> >
>
> What it seems to be doing is not recognizing that it's dealing with a
> symlink but instead thinking that it's a versioned directory full of
> unversioned files. Upon closer inspection though I'm seeing that it's
> not trying to add all the files but just the top-level files plus one
> top-level directory which *is* unversioned but which is listed in the
> svn:ignore property for the directory. There's another versioned
> sub-directory which it seems to be ignoring. Very strange.
>
>
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