RE: Adding external symlinks to svn repositories

it should work if you do it the other way around: have /etc/passwd be a
symlink to the file in your SVN working copy

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From: news [mailto:news@sea.gmane.org]On Behalf Of Sandip Bhattacharya
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 5:47 AM
To: users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Adding external symlinks to svn repositories

Hi!

I was thinking of maintaining a system wide repository of important
configuration files. I tried to create a repository filled with symlinks
to different actual configuration files in the system, like /etc/passwd,
/etc/samba/smb.conf, etc. The reason I am using symlinks is so that I
dont forget adding the changes manually to the repository.

Unfortunately, svn doesnt recognize these symlinks. It keeps on aborting
with the following message:

===============
[root@pluto root]# svn add .fetchmailrc
svn: Unsupported node kind for path '.fetchmailrc'
[root@pluto root]# svn --version
svn, version 1.0.2 (r9423)
    compiled May 15 2004, 13:40:00

===============

Is there any way I can ask svn to treat symlinks as normal files and
follow them to get the actual file contents?

Thanks,
   Sandip

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