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

From: <jblist_at_icloud.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:03:21 -0700

> On Mar 3, 2016, at 12:53 PM, Philip Martin <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> --
> Philip Martin
> WANdisco

In the changelog, it looks like this issue was fixed in 1.7.0. We have this entry:

* allow 'svn info' to work on symlinks to working copies (issue #2305)
Received on 2016-03-03 21:03:38 CET

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