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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by Sandip Bhattacharya <sa...@linux-delhi.org> on 2004/05/26 09:46:30 UTC
Adding external symlinks to svn repositories
Hi!
I was thinking of maintaining a system wide repository of important
configuration files. I tried to create a repository filled with symlinks
to different actual configuration files in the system, like /etc/passwd,
/etc/samba/smb.conf, etc. The reason I am using symlinks is so that I
dont forget adding the changes manually to the repository.
Unfortunately, svn doesnt recognize these symlinks. It keeps on aborting
with the following message:
===============
[root@pluto root]# svn add .fetchmailrc
svn: Unsupported node kind for path '.fetchmailrc'
[root@pluto root]# svn --version
svn, version 1.0.2 (r9423)
compiled May 15 2004, 13:40:00
===============
Is there any way I can ask svn to treat symlinks as normal files and
follow them to get the actual file contents?
Thanks,
Sandip
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Re: Adding external symlinks to svn repositories
Posted by Jeremy Pereira <je...@ntlworld.com>.
On May 26, 2004, at 18:41, Lele Gaifax wrote:
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> Not currently, but you can simply going the other way around: keep the
> normal files under revision, and symlink them into the proper places.
Making sure your wc is on the root partition of course. I don't know
what would happen on reboot if, say, /etc/fstab was a symlink to a file
on another partition.
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> hth,
> ciao, lele.
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Re: Adding external symlinks to svn repositories
Posted by Lele Gaifax <le...@nautilus.homeip.net>.
>>>>> "Sandip" == Sandip Bhattacharya <sa...@linux-delhi.org> writes:
Sandip> Is there any way I can ask svn to treat symlinks as normal
Sandip> files and follow them to get the actual file contents?
Not currently, but you can simply going the other way around: keep the
normal files under revision, and symlink them into the proper places.
hth,
ciao, lele.
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real: Emanuele Gaifas | comincerò ad aver paura di chi mi copia.
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