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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: vincent.belaiche@gmail.com (Vincent Belaïche)
Cc: 28245@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28245: 26.0.50; symbolic links not well handled by vc-dir
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 17:21:42 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838ti55bwp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84lgm6xcsg.fsf@AigleRoyal> (vincent.belaiche@gmail.com)

> From: vincent.belaiche@gmail.com (Vincent Belaïche)
> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 23:02:55 +0200
> Cc: Vincent Belaïche <vincent.belaiche@gmail.com>
> 
> Hello, I have a project under SVN version control. Under the directory
> under change control I have a test directory, call it `trunk/test', in
> which a symbolic link is created to another file, call it
> `trunk/scr/foo', for the purpose of test. So the symbolic link is
> `trunk/foo' pointing at `trunk/src/foo'. `trunk/foo' is not under change
> control, it is created by the test makefile, while `trunk/src/foo' is
> under change control.
> 
> Please note that I am under MSW, I have created the symbolic links as
> native NTFS symbolic links thanks to MSYS2 ln command --- by default
> this command makes a copy, but it is possible to configure MSYS2 to have
> native symlinks.
> 
> OK, `trunk/src/foo' is edited, and when I do `M-x vc-dir', I see in the
> list of edited files `trunk/src/foo' twice. That is, IMHO, a bug.

vc-dir calls the SVN backend to collect its information, and according
to my references, SVN doesn't support symlinks on MS-Windows.  Does
your port of SVN support symlinks?  What does "svn status -v" show in
that repository?





  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-27 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-26 21:02 bug#28245: 26.0.50; symbolic links not well handled by vc-dir Vincent Belaïche
2017-08-27 14:21 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-08-27 20:52   ` Vincent Belaïche
2017-08-28 17:44     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-28 18:13       ` Glenn Morris
2017-08-28 18:19         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-28 18:33           ` Glenn Morris
2017-08-28 18:38             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-28 22:57               ` Vincent Belaïche
2017-08-28  1:04 ` Richard Stallman

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