Re: parent directory is referenced by "svn info"?

jblist_at_icloud.com writes:

>>>> On Mar 2, 2016, at 10:16 AM, txm <tmellman_at_web.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> $ svn info /home/user/nodes/dev_5_main
>>>> svn: '/home/user/nodes' is not a working copy

>> On Mar 3, 2016, at 12:06 AM, txm <tmellman_at_web.de> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry,
>>
>> svn, version 1.6.6 (r40053)
>> svn is hashed (/usr/bin/svn)
>> DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS"

> Version 1.6 is no longer supported. If there is indeed some bug in the
> 1.6 client that causes the behavior you describe it will not be fixed
> in the 1.6 release branch. If you can, upgrade to either 1.8 or 1.9.

Symbolic links break some 1.6 operations:

$ svn1.6 co file:///... wc
$ svn1.6 info $PWD/wc | grep Kind
Node Kind: directory
$ ln -s wc wc2
$ svn1.6 info $PWD/wc2
svn: '/home/pm/sw/subversion/obj3' is not a working copy

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Philip Martin
WANdisco