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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by sebb <se...@gmail.com> on 2017/09/12 14:12:58 UTC

SVN 1.9.7: issues with symlinks to subdir of working copy

I have a directory containing links to SVN directories that I want to update.

In some cases the link is to the root of the workspace, and in some
cases the link is to a subdir.

$ mkdir TEST
$ cd TEST
$ svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk subversion
$ ln -s subversion top
$ ln -s subversion/tools tools
$ ls -l

drwxr-xr-x  26 x  x  884 12 Sep 14:48 subversion
lrwxr-xr-x   1 x  x   17 12 Sep 14:49 tools -> subversion/tools/
lrwxr-xr-x   1 x  x   10 12 Sep 14:49 top -> subversion

The following commands work fine:

$ svn info
...
$ svn log tools
...

However for other commands there are some issues.

$ svn status subversion top tools
svn: warning: W155007: '/srv/TEST/tools/backup' is not a working copy

$ svn -u status subversion top tools
Status against revision: 1808117
~          1808117   top
Status against revision: 1808117
svn: warning: W155007: '/srv/TEST' is not a working copy

Note the strange path reference.

$ svn update subversion top tools
Updating 'subversion':
At revision 1808117.
Updating 'top':
At revision 1808117.
Skipped 'tools'
Summary of updates:
  Updated 'subversion' to r1808117.
  Updated 'top' to r1808117.
Summary of conflicts:
  Skipped paths: 1

Note: the output does not say why tools is skipped

$ svn update tools
Skipped 'tools'
svn: E155007: None of the targets are working copies

Whereas:

$ cd tools
/srv/TEST/tools
$ svn update .
Updating '.':
At revision 1808117.

These tests were done on

$ svn --version
svn, version 1.9.7 (r1800392)
   compiled Aug 10 2017, 21:32:31 on x86_64-apple-darwin16.3.0

Is this a known bug?
I could not find anything in the database.

Re: SVN 1.9.7: issues with symlinks to subdir of working copy

Posted by Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org>.
On 12.09.2017 16:12, sebb wrote:
> I have a directory containing links to SVN directories that I want to update.
>
> In some cases the link is to the root of the workspace, and in some
> cases the link is to a subdir.
>
> $ mkdir TEST
> $ cd TEST
> $ svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk subversion
> $ ln -s subversion top
> $ ln -s subversion/tools tools
> $ ls -l
>
> drwxr-xr-x  26 x  x  884 12 Sep 14:48 subversion
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 x  x   17 12 Sep 14:49 tools -> subversion/tools/
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 x  x   10 12 Sep 14:49 top -> subversion
>
> The following commands work fine:
>
> $ svn info
> ...
> $ svn log tools
> ...
>
> However for other commands there are some issues.
>
> $ svn status subversion top tools
> svn: warning: W155007: '/srv/TEST/tools/backup' is not a working copy
>
> $ svn -u status subversion top tools
> Status against revision: 1808117
> ~          1808117   top
> Status against revision: 1808117
> svn: warning: W155007: '/srv/TEST' is not a working copy
>
> Note the strange path reference.
>
> $ svn update subversion top tools
> Updating 'subversion':
> At revision 1808117.
> Updating 'top':
> At revision 1808117.
> Skipped 'tools'
> Summary of updates:
>   Updated 'subversion' to r1808117.
>   Updated 'top' to r1808117.
> Summary of conflicts:
>   Skipped paths: 1
>
> Note: the output does not say why tools is skipped
>
> $ svn update tools
> Skipped 'tools'
> svn: E155007: None of the targets are working copies
>
> Whereas:
>
> $ cd tools
> /srv/TEST/tools
> $ svn update .
> Updating '.':
> At revision 1808117.
>
> These tests were done on
>
> $ svn --version
> svn, version 1.9.7 (r1800392)
>    compiled Aug 10 2017, 21:32:31 on x86_64-apple-darwin16.3.0
>
> Is this a known bug?
> I could not find anything in the database.

It's "known" in the sense that we're aware of the fact that we don't
handle unversioned symbolic links very well. I don't think this specific
case has been documented in the issue tracker.

-- Brane