Hi All,
I'm encountering some strange behaviour with replacing a symlink with
a real file in the repository and wanted to know if what I was seeing is
a bug or whether I'm doing something wrong. I'd like to replace the
file in one commit, but Subversion objects to changing the file type:
% ls -l trunk/memory_ddr3.v
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mclaughl eng 74 Jul 19 11:51 trunk/memory_ddr3.v ->
/proj/ddr3/s39/s39a0c2762e5ac7f7
% svn status trunk/memory_ddr3.v
% svn rm trunk/memory_ddr3.v
D trunk/memory_ddr3.v
% cp /proj/ddr3/s39/s39a0c2762e5ac7f7 trunk/memory_ddr3.v
% svn add trunk/memory_ddr3.v
A trunk/memory_ddr3.v
% svn status trunk/memory_ddr3.v
R trunk/memory_ddr3.v
% svn ci -m "Correcting link" trunk/memory_ddr3.v
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Entry '/home/mclaughl/nobackup/trunk/memory_ddr3.v' has
unexpectedly changed special status
% svn --version
svn, version 1.6.15 (r1038135)
compiled Jan 5 2011, 17:03:40
Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.apache.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet
(http://www.Collab.Net/).
The following repository access (RA) modules are available:
* ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using
Neon.
- handles 'http' scheme
- handles 'https' scheme
* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
- with Cyrus SASL authentication
- handles 'svn' scheme
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
- handles 'file' scheme
Server version:
% svn --version
svn, version 1.6.11 (r934486)
compiled Apr 28 2010, 10:26:48
Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet
(http://www.Collab.Net/).
The following repository access (RA) modules are available:
* ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using
Neon.
- handles 'http' scheme
- handles 'https' scheme
* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
- handles 'svn' scheme
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
- handles 'file' scheme
I can work around this by doing the replace in two transactions (delete,
commit, add, commit), but shouldn't I be able to replace this file in one?
Does this warrant a bug report or is this user error?
--Mattius McLaughlin
