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Re: Quick question concerning symlinks

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2007a_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: 2007-02-09 18:13:15 CET

On Feb 9, 2007, at 10:09, mal content wrote:

> What is the expected behaviour when checking in a symlink that points
> to a file NOT under version control?
>
> As an example:
>
> $ ln -s /bin/sh shell
> $ svn add shell
>
> Under any circumstances, will /bin/sh be copied into the repository?
> (In my actual situation, these are SSL certificates, so you can
> understand
> why I want to make sure they don't end up in the repository).

I would expect that /bin/sh will not be copied into the repository
under any circumstances. You could try it out and see what happens.

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