On Jan 3, 2008 5:04 AM, Rob Aldred <rob_at_webmaint.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have noticed a bug or incompatibility with symlinks when using
> tortoise svn with a mapped drive on samba,
>
> I have a centos installation running on vmware on my windows machine
> running samba, I have mapped my checked out copy to drive R:
>
> I have a symlink in one of the checked out directories when I commit, it
> tortoise moans that the directory is obstructed it leave it unchecked.
>
> executing the command svn status at shell on my centos installation
> shows nothing, so I am presuming this is a bug or incompatibility when
> using tortoise in this way.
I think it's more an issue of Windows not understanding symlinks in
the first place. Be advised that sharing a working copy between users
and/or OSes (which you're doing in this example) is not supported; in
fact, it's discouraged, because of incompatibilities like this.
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Received on 2008-01-04 07:03:01 CET