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git-svn fix for broken symlinks

From
SJSverre Johansen <sverre.johansen@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 18, 2007, 16:11 UTC
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Hi,

There is a bug in older versions of SVN that makes it possible to create symlinks where the target is not the path to the file, but instead the content of the target file. The bug is described here [0].

This breaks git-svn because it expects files which is marked as symlinks to have the content "link: <filename>".

There was a thread about this back in July, resulting in this patch [1]. Is that patch planned to be merged anytime soon? I'm using it, and it works great for me.

[0]: http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2692 [1]: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2007/7/19/252025

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