[ I accidentally replied only to Daniel, and meant to send this to the
list. Forgive me please, Daniel. ]
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> This came across as a very negative tone. (I assume you had read the
> comments in the issue)
>
> It's nominated for backport. There was a dev@ thread asking if it should
> get some (fairly trivial to implement) changes before being backported.
> The thread concluded, but the branches/1.6.x/STATUS entry is still marked
> "waiting for thread to resolve".
>
> If you'd like to move this forward, you can ask on dev@ to see what
> changes need to be made (if any) and for more +1 votes (and less -0 votes)
> in STATUS.
>
> Regarding your shell script, please review the regression test in HEAD of
> trunk to ensure it captures the desired behaviour.
>
> Daniel
>
>
> Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote on Fri, 25 Jun 2010 at 15:08 -0000:
>> Good morning:
>>
>> This is Nico Kadel-Garcia, the person who submitted the svnadmin
>> hotcopy/symlink issue number 2591 in 2006. I see that it's been very
>> recently marked "resolved". This is not fixed in the recent 1.6.12
>> release, I'm sad to say.
>>
>> This bug has been a pain in my backside for 4 years. Can we seriously
>> encourage its inclusion in 1.6.13, at least?
>>
>> I've also included a somewhat more robust test script below, to verify
>> that the symlinks are duplicated and they point to the same place.
>>
>> ========================================
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> #
>> # test-hotcopy-hardlink.sh - verify svnadmin hotcopy preservation of symlinks
>>
>> REPO1=/tmp/repo1
>> REPO2=/tmp/repo2
>>
>> rm -rf $REPO1 $REPO2 || exit 1
>> svnadmin create $REPO1
>> /bin/mv $REPO1/conf/passwd $REPO1/conf/passwd.template
>> ln -s $REPO1/conf/passwd.template $REPO1/conf/passwd
>> svnadmin hotcopy $REPO1 $REPO2
>> readlink $REPO1/conf/passwd
>> if [ ! -h $REPO2/conf/passwd ]; then
>> echo "Error: svnadmin hotcopy fails to duplicate symlinks in repository"
>> exit 1
>> elif [ "`readlink $REPO1/conf/passwd`" != "`readlink
>> $REPO2/conf/passwd`" ]; then
>> echo "Error: svnadmin hotcopy gets symlinks wrong in repository"
>> exit 1
>> fi
>>
>>
>
Received on 2010-06-26 01:13:21 CEST