On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 16:34, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> Daniel Shahaf wrote on Wed, 12 May 2010 at 23:19 +0300:
>> It only affects symlinks being added on Windows
>
> And even then, what exactly is the effect? What code exactly is going to
> bother noticing that the property's value is not "*", given that we
> promise it to always be "*" whenever the property is present? :-)
>
> Daniel
> (I've always wondered why symlinks are represented as
>
> metadata = { 'svn:special' : '*' }
> data = "link $target"
>
> rather than as
>
> metadata = { 'svn:special' : 'link' }
> data = "$target"
Don't get me started. It should have been svn:symlink = $target
