[Subclipse-users] Re: Symbolic link with space in filename is not stored properly: BUG?

I noticed the information I copied from Eclipse doesn’t contain the
version numbers of Subclipse (it might be good to provide it in that
text also, since you can’t copy from the list you get at Help → About
Eclipse Platform → Subclipse button. See below.

Hendrik Maryns schreef:
> Jens Seidel schreef:
>> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:24:11AM +0200, Hendrik Maryns wrote:
>>> I have a project which contains a symbolic link to a file in another
>>> project which is also in the repo. The filename contains a space and
>>> the link has the same name. Now the file itself is checked out properly
>>> in the one project, but the link contains only *the last part of* the
>>> symbolic link, i.e. the part after the space in the filename.
>>>
>>> This seems like a bug to me.
>>>
>>> What to do here?
>> Now you tell us your version of Subversion and Subclipse :-) Do you use
>> JavaHL or SVNKit?
>
> Hm, yes, of course and sorry.
>
> ====
>
>> svn --version
> svn, version 1.5.0 (dev build)
> compiled Jun 7 2008, 02:20:09
>
> Copyright (C) 2000-2008 CollabNet.
> Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
> This product includes software developed by CollabNet
> (http://www.Collab.Net/).
>
> The following repository access (RA) modules are available:
>
> * ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using
> Neon.
> - handles 'http' scheme
> - handles 'https' scheme
> * ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
> - with Cyrus SASL authentication
> - handles 'svn' scheme
> * ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
> - handles 'file' scheme
>
> ====
>
> Subversion Client Adapter
>
> Subclipse is an Eclipse team provider for the Subversion version
> control system. Visit http://subclipse.tigris.org/
>
> This product includes software developed by CollabNet
> (http://www.Collab.Net/)
>
> This product includes SVNKit. (http://svnkit.com/)
> Copyright (c) 2004-2006 TMate Software. All rights reserved.
>
> This offering is based on technology from the Eclipse Project.
> Visit http://www.eclipse.org
>
> ====

Version 1.5.1

> and similar for
> Subversion Native Library Adapter (JavaHL) 1.5.2
> Subclipse 1.4.4
> Subversion Pure Java Adapter (SVNKit) 1.5.1.1
>
> Maybe this matters as well:
>
> ====
>
> Eclipse Platform
>
> Version: 3.4.0
> Build id: I20080617-2000
>
> ====
>
>> uname -a
> Linux lichtenstein 2.6.25.16-0.1-default #1 SMP 2008-08-21 00:34:25
> +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> ====
>
> Indeed I use SVNKit, so I’ll follow the advice from Mark and CC
> support_at_svnkit.com.
>
>> Can you reproduce it on the command line? It should not be very difficult.
>> If yes, it's a bug in Subversion. I think I remember reading about a
>> similar issue the last weeks (or months), so maybe it is already fixed.
>
> Seems like this is an SVNKit issue, since on the command line I get the
> following:
>
>> svn diff
> Index: kruisend-tiger.pdf
> ===================================================================
> --- kruisend-tiger.pdf (revision 423)
> +++ kruisend-tiger.pdf (working copy)
> @@ -1 +1 @@
> -link TI/src/kruisend-tiger.pdf
> \ No newline at end of file
> +link ../../Oberseminar TI/src/kruisend-tiger.pdf
> \ No newline at end of file
>
> So indeed it picks it up correctly.

Cheers, H.

-- 
Hendrik Maryns
http://tcl.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~hendrik/
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