Re: [PATCH/RFC v2] git svn: work around SVN 1.7 mishandling of svn:special changes

2012-10-10 Thread Eric Wong
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Jonathan Nieder wrote: Revisions prepared with ordinary svn commands (svn add and not svn propset) don't trip this because they represent filetype changes using a replace operation [...]

[PATCH/RFC v2] git svn: work around SVN 1.7 mishandling of svn:special changes

2012-10-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Subversion represents symlinks as ordinary files with content starting with link and the svn:special property set to *. Thus a file can switch between being a symlink and a non-symlink simply by toggling its svn:special property, and new checkouts will automatically write a file of the