Re: issuse about svn add linux device file

On Nov 27, 2008, at 20:45, Sun, ChengHao wrote:

> I am using the subversion version 1.4.2 (r22196) client and version
> 1.5.2 (r32768) on subversion server.
> I find some issue when I add some Linux device files as below:
>
> $ll filesys/dev/ttyE226
> crw-r----- 1 root root 24, 226 Nov 28 09:32 filesys/dev/ttyE226
>
> $sudo svn add filesys/dev/ttyE226 --force --no-ignore
> svn: Unsupported node kind for path 'filesys/dev/ttyE226'
>
> I searched but couldn’t find solution about this issue, could you
> give some direction for it?

Maybe it's just not possible to add a device to a Subversion
repository. It certainly falls outside the scope of source control,
which is what most people use Subversion for. You can add files,
directories and symlinks. Why do you want to add a device?

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Received on 2008-11-28 21:00:20 CET