Re: svn info does not work with symlink to different working copy

2013-02-04 Thread Michael Kaufmann
  I have not found anything about this behavior in the bug tracker.
  Is this by design or is it a Subversion bug?
 
 I'm pretty sure there's an issue filed for this already.  I'd have
 expected a search for symlink to turn it up.

This issue is the closest match that I have found: Symbolic links are 
sometimes traversed
( http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3116 )

Do you think that this is the same problem? If not... shall I file a new bug 
report?


 The whole topic of 'symlink to working copy' (and whether the symlink
 itself is versioned of not) is... fun.  Maybe it's better in 1.8 than in
 1.7?  I didn't follow development in that area closely.

The symlink is itself versioned. I have built Subversion 1.8.0-dev and checked 
whether it fixes the problem, but the error message is exactly the same as in 
1.7.8.


Re: svn info does not work with symlink to different working copy

2013-02-01 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Michael Kaufmann wrote on Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 14:06:08 +0100:
 Hi all,
 
 I am using Subverison 1.7.8. On my disk are two Subversion working copies 
 (from different repositories), and one working copy contains a symlink to the 
 other:
 
 I have not found anything about this behavior in the bug tracker.
 Is this by design or is it a Subversion bug?

I'm pretty sure there's an issue filed for this already.  I'd have
expected a search for symlink to turn it up.

The whole topic of 'symlink to working copy' (and whether the symlink
itself is versioned of not) is... fun.  Maybe it's better in 1.8 than in
1.7?  I didn't follow development in that area closely.


svn info does not work with symlink to different working copy

2013-01-31 Thread Michael Kaufmann
Hi all,

I am using Subverison 1.7.8. On my disk are two Subversion working copies (from 
different repositories), and one working copy contains a symlink to the other:

/modules/test/dir/file.dat
/sources/test/modules - ../../modules/test/


Unfortunately svn info does not work with an absolute path name in this 
scenario:

~$ svn info /sources/test/modules/dir
svn: warning: W155010: The node '/sources/test/modules/dir' was not found.

svn: E29: Could not display info for all targets because some targets don't 
exist


But it works when changing the directory before running svn info:
~$ cd /sources/test/modules
/sources/test/modules$ svn info dir
[... valid svn info output ...]


I have not found anything about this behavior in the bug tracker.
Is this by design or is it a Subversion bug?

Regards,
Michael