Re: [Fwd: svn diff on dangling symlinks]

On 11/30/06, Svata Dedic <belgarat@mail.klfree.net> wrote:
> I am storing symlinks into a svn repository, some of them may be
> dangling on other machines, which can check out the project contents
> (they refer e.g. to local files on a server, outside of the svn project).
> When I attempt to svn diff the working copy against an older revision,
> the svn command dies in the middle with "Can't open file" error as soon
> as it encounters a dangling symlink and the diff output is truncated.

Untested: you could specify a custom diff command (using --diff-cmd)
that tests for and doesn't follow symlinks, then invokes an actual
diff command on files.

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Received on Thu Nov 30 18:21:48 2006