Re: svnadmin hotcopy should copy links, not follow them..

On Tuesday 04 December 2007, Lutz.Dornbusch@fiducia.de wrote:
> Hello,
> I recently found a small, but annoying problem with svnadmin hotcopy:
>
> We manage a large number of repositories( more than 200 Repos size range
> from 1MB to 13GB)
> For our hookscripts we put links into the hooks-directory, because it is
> the easiest way to maintain
> the integrity of this hookscripts.
> Our problem is that each svnadmin hotcopy call will follow the links,
> replacing the convinient links with
> native files.
> Is there an option for not following links, but copying them?
> Or even better: hotcopy should maintain the most equal state of the
> repository .. resolving links to files is
> not as conservative, as it could be, is it?
>
> Greetings,
> Lutz

Well, isn't following the links exactly what you want ? After all, this way
hotcopy preserves the consistent state at the point in time when the hotcopy
was made...
        Marc

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