svn:needs-lock on symbolic links

[Norbert Foerster <N....@gmx.de>]

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Hi,

I had some fun after setting svn:needs-lock on symbolic links under linux.
svn seems to try to set the link and/or it's target to read-only.
It all started because I've set the svn:needs-lock property recursively
on a structure which contained links.

I noted the steps to reproduce the behavior with svn 1.3.2
I didn't got the error in step 6 reported under svn 1.3.0.

Has anyone suggestions how to repair the repository?
Is this a bug? I think svn should not (try to) chmod links.


#!/bin/csh
setenv SVN_DIR /tmp
setenv HOME     /home/nf2
setenv WORK     $HOME/svn-link-issue/
setenv SVN      $WORK/subversion-1.3.2/subversion/clients/cmdline/svn
setenv SVNADMIN $WORK/subversion-1.3.2/subversion/svnadmin/svnadmin

echo "1. creating repository"
$SVNADMIN create $SVN_DIR/repos

echo "2. adding initial structure"
$SVN mkdir file://$SVN_DIR/repos/trunk -m "creating initial repository layout"

echo "3. checkout sandbox"
cd $WORK
$SVN co file://$SVN_DIR/repos wc

echo "4. adding 2 folders, a file and a link"
cd wc
mkdir trunk/folder-a
mkdir trunk/folder-b
touch trunk/folder-b/target
ln -s trunk/folder-b/target trunk/folder-a/link
$SVN add trunk/*
$SVN commit trunk -m "adding two folders and a link"

echo "5. adding needs-lock recursively"
cd $WORK/wc
$SVN pset -R svn:needs-lock "*" trunk/folder-a/link

echo "6. this commit succeeds with errors, bringing the repository in a really bad situation"
$SVN commit trunk -m "needs-lock added"

echo "7. checkout 2nd sandbox fails. yes, chmod on a link is not nice;-)"
cd $WORK
$SVN co file://$SVN_DIR/repos wc2

echo "8. trying to fix it in old sandbox fails "
cd $WORK/wc
$SVN propdel svn:needs-lock trunk/folder-a/link
$SVN commit -m " removing needs-lock on link"
$SVN cleanup

echo "9. direct fix also fails, not supported"
$SVN propdel svn:needs-lock file://$SVN_DIR/repos/trunk/folder-a/link


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Norbert Foerster   Key: http://www.nandbert.de/key/0xC87EBF96.asc
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