Replacing soft links with another file type

[Mi...@schange.com]

Sent this of yesterday as my first post and didn't get a response so maybe 
I'm sending to the wrong address. ;-)

If I have a soft link that I want to replace with a regular file, I have 
to replace it with two commits, one after the delete and another after the 
add, or else I get an error committing.

Fairly new at Subversion so maybe I'm missing something. Searched the 
archives, but only found link problems relating to cross environments This 
is all Linux.

Subversion Versions: 
Client: 1.4.0 
Server 1.3.2 

Thanks for any help. It's a great product. 
Mike

Command sequence:

 ls -l route 
 route -> ../bin/busybox 

svn del route 
D         route 

cp rfs/sbin/route . 
svn stat 
~      route 

svn add route 
A  (bin)  route 
svn status 
~      route

svn commit -m "Replacing link with binary" 

svn: Commit failed (details follow): 
svn: Entry '/home/mvm/sb/fsi102/ramdisk_fsi/sbin/route' has unexpectedly 
changed special status 

svn del route 
svn: 'route' is in the way of the resource actually under version control 

rm route 
svn status 
!      route 

svn del route 
D         route 
svn stat 
D      route 

svn commit -m "Replacing link with binary" 
Deleting       sbin/route 

Committed revision 452. 
        

Re: Replacing soft links with another file type

[Garrett Rooney <ro...@electricjellyfish.net>]

On 10/5/06, Michael.McElroy@schange.com <Mi...@schange.com> wrote:
>
> Sent this of yesterday as my first post and didn't get a response so maybe
> I'm sending to the wrong address. ;-)
>
> If I have a soft link that I want to replace with a regular file, I have to
> replace it with two commits, one after the delete and another after the add,
> or else I get an error committing.
>
> Fairly new at Subversion so maybe I'm missing something. Searched the
> archives, but only found link problems relating to cross environments This
> is all Linux.
>
> Subversion Versions:
>  Client: 1.4.0
>  Server 1.3.2
>
>  Thanks for any help. It's a great product.
>  Mike
>
> Command sequence:
>
>  ls -l route
>  route -> ../bin/busybox
>
>  svn del route
>  D         route
>
>  cp rfs/sbin/route .
>  svn stat
>  ~      route
>
>  svn add route
>  A  (bin)  route
>  svn status
>  ~      route
>
> svn commit -m "Replacing link with binary"
>
>  svn: Commit failed (details follow):
>  svn: Entry '/home/mvm/sb/fsi102/ramdisk_fsi/sbin/route'
> has unexpectedly changed special status
>
>  svn del route
>  svn: 'route' is in the way of the resource actually under version control
>
>  rm route
>  svn status
>  !      route
>
>  svn del route
>  D         route
>  svn stat
>  D      route
>
>  svn commit -m "Replacing link with binary"
>  Deleting       sbin/route
>
>  Committed revision 452.

Looks like a bug to me.  Would you mind filing it in the issue tracker
so it doesn't get forgotten about?

-garrett

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@subversion.tigris.org