Re: how to make svn _follow_ symbolic links?

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Jul 22, 2009, at 09:25, Giulio Troccoli wrote:
>
>
>> You want repository A to store a symlink to a file in a working
>> copy of repository B.
>>
>
> As I understood it, no, he wants both repositories to store complete
> copies of the file. The repository does not even know about the
> symlink. The user has just replaced both real files in his working
> copies with symlinks to a common third version of the file. And he
> wants Subversion to transparently handle that on commits and updates.
>

But it can't be transparent. This would treat 'your' working copy
differently than you are asking it to treat everyone else's. The whole
point of subversion is that it can reproduce what was committed. If
you delete the workspaces containing the symlinks, then check them back
out you wouldn't have what you committed if it replaced the symlinks
with the contents of a target. How would your reproduce your setup as
it was committed?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
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