Re: subversion can't commit project under symlink?

On 12/18/2009 1:41 PM, Rob van Oostrum wrote:
>
>
> Should I file this as a bug report? It seems to me that svn should
> be smart enough to figure this out -- although, that would take
> some thinking. Svn is able to handle other operations
> intuitively, such as status.
>
>
>
> No, this isn't a bug IMO. SVN is designed to support versioning
> symbolic links. Committing changes to/under it is a scenario where it
> has to break directory/link transparency because it's ambiguous what
> you're telling the client to do (i.e. creating the symbolic link vs.
> committing the changes in the location the new link is pointing to).

Well, let me argue the point a bit.

You would never create a symbolic link with a commit statement, right?
You could only do it using add? If I make a symbolic link, and try to
commit it, I get a "not under version control" error.

In other words, the flow control that svn would need when it sees "svn
commit symbolic_link" is

if already_in_project_directory && symbolic_link_is_under_version_control
     commit normally
else if
     check if the symbolic link is itself a subversion project, and
commit it
else
    fail with warning.

In other words, I'm already getting an error that the file isn't under
version control -- there's no ambiguity. Why not at that point do an
additional check to see if I'm wanting to commit a subversion project
contained within a symbolic link to a directory, before failing?

Or maybe I'm not understanding -- can you give an example of the
scenario where the ambiguity arises?

-- 
Steve Lefevre
Lead Developer
Restaurant Consultants, Inc.
( 614 ) 421-1441
slefevre_at_restcon.net
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