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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by "Miller, Eric" <Er...@amd.com> on 2008/02/20 20:30:51 UTC
Symlinks
Could someone outline for me how symlinks are supposed to work in svn?
I'm seeing some spots where the client seems to jump through a link to a
directory and other times it doesn't.
Is there a hard and fast rule of how svn should treat symlinks?
Thanks,
Eric
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RE: Symlinks
Posted by bf...@verizon.net.
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Miller, Eric wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kenneth Porter [mailto:shiva@sewingwitch.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:22 PM
> >
> > On Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:30 PM -0800 "Miller, Eric"
> > <Er...@amd.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a hard and fast rule of how svn should treat symlinks?
> >
> > I recall reading in a thread in the last few days that symlinks are a
> > unique, versioned type of object, distinct from directories and files.
> > Only
> > true directories, not symlinks, should be traversed by recursive
> > operations.
>
> That's what I thought as well. I've got a couple of testcases that
> don't appear to work in this manner. I'll send them to the dev list.
Unfortunately links and merges are a delicate area, see:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3051
..for example. Also, if you a conflicted link the behavior
gets even worse (an unlock and manual remove of a temp file
is required).
I'll have to visit the dev list to see what your issue is!
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RE: Symlinks
Posted by "Miller, Eric" <Er...@amd.com>.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Porter [mailto:shiva@sewingwitch.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:22 PM
>
> On Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:30 PM -0800 "Miller, Eric"
> <Er...@amd.com> wrote:
>
> > Is there a hard and fast rule of how svn should treat symlinks?
>
> I recall reading in a thread in the last few days that symlinks are a
> unique, versioned type of object, distinct from directories and files.
> Only
> true directories, not symlinks, should be traversed by recursive
> operations.
That's what I thought as well. I've got a couple of testcases that
don't appear to work in this manner. I'll send them to the dev list.
Thanks,
Eric
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Re: Symlinks
Posted by Kenneth Porter <sh...@sewingwitch.com>.
On Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:30 PM -0800 "Miller, Eric"
<Er...@amd.com> wrote:
> Is there a hard and fast rule of how svn should treat symlinks?
I recall reading in a thread in the last few days that symlinks are a
unique, versioned type of object, distinct from directories and files. Only
true directories, not symlinks, should be traversed by recursive operations.
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Re: Symlinks
Posted by David O'Shea <da...@s3group.com>.
On 20/02/2008 22:22, Miller, Eric wrote:
> There are a few open bugs on symbolic links.
> All of these looked fixed on trunk to me:
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2284
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2305
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2352
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2631
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2716
There are other issues too. The following sequence fails both on 1.4 and
on 1.5alpha2 with "No such file or directory":
svnadmin create repos
svn co file://$(pwd)/repos tmp
cd tmp
svn mkdir trunk trunk/a trunk/b trunk/c
touch trunk/a/file
ln -s ../a/file trunk/c/link
svn add trunk/a/file trunk/c/link
svn ci -m "Create skeleton."
svn cp trunk branches
svn ci -m "Make branch."
touch trunk/b/file
svn rm trunk/a/file
rm trunk/c/link
ln -s ../b/file trunk/c/link
svn ci -m "Make changes."
svn merge -c3 trunk branches
Regards,
David.
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RE: Symlinks
Posted by "Miller, Eric" <Er...@amd.com>.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Huelsmann [mailto:ehuels@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 1:50 PM
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Miller, Eric <Er...@amd.com>
wrote:
> > Could someone outline for me how symlinks are supposed to work in
svn?
> >
> > I'm seeing some spots where the client seems to jump through a link
to
> a
> > directory and other times it doesn't.
> >
> > Is there a hard and fast rule of how svn should treat symlinks?
>
> The client should treat symlinks as versionable objects.
Ok - I attached a script to reproduce these then (ran with r29434).
bug 1a,b: svn revert <link> seems to jump through the link.
bug 2: svn st <link> seems to jump through the link.
There are a few open bugs on symbolic links.
All of these looked fixed on trunk to me:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2284
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2305
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2352
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2631
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2716
Should I file a bug?
Thanks,
Eric