Re: svn info /path/to/symlink-to-wc fails

On 1/18/08, Keith Beattie <ksbeattie_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This appears to be a reincarnation of
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2117
>
> $ svn info /path/to/symlink-to-wc
> svn: '/path/to' is not a working copy
> svn: Can't open file '/path/to/.svn/entries': No such file or directory
>
> This happens not just with 'info' but also 'ls', 'pg' and perhaps
> others but interestingly not 'st'.
>
> I see this in 1.4.2, 1.4.3 and 1.4.6
>
> Should I post this to dev, file a bug or perhaps try re-opening 2117?

No, why? [I suppose you were not going to report 'st' is broken?] What
you're seeing is correct behaviour: symlinks themselves are versioned
objects, so you're not asking Subversion

"what's the info on 'the path the symlink points to'", but you're
asking "what's the info of '/path/to/symlink' within its working copy
'/path/to'".

Other than brokenness of 'st', I can't think of a reason to file a bug.

HTH,

Erik.

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Received on 2008-01-18 14:43:44 CET