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Re: moving a file on top of a link issue?

From: Jeff Smith <jsmith_at_robotronics.com>
Date: 2007-03-23 21:11:14 CET

On Friday 16 March 2007 16:30, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Mar 16, 2007, at 10:52, Jeff Smith wrote:
> > On Friday 02 March 2007 01:16, tim gunter wrote:
[...]
> > In fact, you say you replaced the file, edited it, then reverted
> > it. Isn't 'revert' supposed to revert it back to what it was on
> > the last commit?
>
> Yeah, and he's saying Subversion doesn't do that: rather than
> recreating the symlink, Subversion is replacing the contents of his
> file with, literally, a text file containing the word "link"
> followed by the location to which the symlink should be pointing.
>
> I haven't tried to reproduce the behavior yet.

I thought I saw what the case script was doing, but more inspection
later shows that it is true. It created the text file instead of the
link.

Does that mean this was an unknown bug?

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