On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Miller, Eric wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kenneth Porter [mailto:shiva_at_sewingwitch.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:22 PM
> >
> > On Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:30 PM -0800 "Miller, Eric"
> > <Eric.Miller_at_amd.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a hard and fast rule of how svn should treat symlinks?
> >
> > I recall reading in a thread in the last few days that symlinks are a
> > unique, versioned type of object, distinct from directories and files.
> > Only
> > true directories, not symlinks, should be traversed by recursive
> > operations.
>
> That's what I thought as well. I've got a couple of testcases that
> don't appear to work in this manner. I'll send them to the dev list.
Unfortunately links and merges are a delicate area, see:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3051
..for example. Also, if you a conflicted link the behavior
gets even worse (an unlock and manual remove of a temp file
is required).
I'll have to visit the dev list to see what your issue is!
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Received on 2008-02-23 01:57:40 CET