Re: [Subclipse-users] Symbolic links - Eclipse not compatible with Subversion

UM <200603_maps@email.de> wrote on 10/24/2006 10:17:05 AM:

> I would like to use UNIX-style symbolic links in Subversion and Eclipse.
I
> am working with LINUX.
>
> It seems that Eclipse and Subversion are incompatible: All 3 cases, i.e.

> relative symbolic link, absolute symbolic link and broken symbolic link,
do not work.

Are you aware of SVN's capabilities with symlinks and how it works? For
example, it only supports symlinks of files.

> 3. Trying to use linkedResources of Eclipse as symbolic links will not
be
> honored by Subversion: After a check out these linkedResources will not
be
> established as links in the workspave / UNIX file system.

We support linked resources in as much as we allow them to exist. But we
do not version or manage the linked resources themselves. You would have
to have them present on any system where they are checked out.

> Does anyone has an idea or a suggestion or a feedback?

Don't use symlinks? Maybe try the svn:externals feature?

> My suggestions for solving the problem are:
> - SVN check out should maintain Eclipse's linkedResources in .project
and in
> Eclipse's navigator.

Not going to happen. SVN does all filesystem manipulation and it has no
way to know about this feature.

> - Eclipse's import into navigator's workspace view should convert UNIX's

> symbolic links to linkedResources (maintenance of .project included).

Not likely. Wouldn't be of much value since we only tolerate the presence
of linked resources and do not manage them.

Mark

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Received on Tue Oct 24 18:18:41 2006