conflicted link

If do a merge of a link and get a conflict, what's the correct
behavior? Seems like it wouldn't make sense to do any conflict
marking like with a regular file.

In my case I only care about a real softlink on a real OS (that supports
such a thing) -- not a regular file with some "link somefile" text
to fill in for real link support.

I find that what happens looks like this:

% svn merge -c 8 $REPO/trunk .
Skipped missing target: 'testfile'
A testfile2
svn: In directory '.'
svn: '.svn/tmp/tempfile.3.tmp' has unsupported special file type '<<<<<<<'

I have to then remove the .tmp file before doing a cleanup and revert.
The testlink.{merge-left*,merge-right*} links are setup as you would
expect, and there's a testlink.working that is a copy of the old
target of the link.

I was testing a fix for
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3051
when I hit this -- that bug is fairly basic breakage when trying to
merge changes to a link.

(I confirmed the bad .tmp file behavior with both a 1.4.2 and 1.4.3 client
and 1.4.3 server.)

-bc

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