Thanks for the report. It would be great if you could file an issue and write a test for this problem.
- Julian Dmitry Pavlenko wrote on 2018-07-11: > The following scenario fails for me: delete a file, create a symlink with the > same name, run "svn diff". Instead of displaying the diff, SVN tries to read > the link content. If "NOWHERE" variable is set to the file name, the symlink > refers to itself, showing another error. > > Instead I would expect something with "-" and "+" markers. If you uncomment > #echo "link $NOWHERE" > $WC_PATH/trunk/file > > and comment out "ln -s" call, the script will display approximately what I > would expect (but without svn:special). > > I'm not sure if this is a known bug, sorry for reporting something known if > it > is. > > Locally I also have similar scenario failing in another way: before reading > the symlink it displays deletion of "trunk/trunk/symlink" (yes, unexpectedly > double "trunk", in my local test the file is called "symlink"). But I think > it's the same issue. If it will still fail after this one is fixed, I'll > analyze why. > > > > #!/bin/sh > > SVN=svn > > #1. Create an empty SVN repository. > > REPOSITORY_PATH="$PWD/svn.repo" > > svnadmin create "$REPOSITORY_PATH" > > # 2. Add a file to the repository. > > WC_PATH="/tmp/wc" > REPOSITORY_URL="file://$REPOSITORY_PATH" > > $SVN co $REPOSITORY_URL $WC_PATH > $SVN mkdir $WC_PATH/trunk > > echo "content" > $WC_PATH/trunk/file > > $SVN add $WC_PATH/trunk/file > $SVN commit -m "A file added." $WC_PATH > > # 3. Replace the file with a symlink pointing to nowhere (or to itself --- > for > another kind of error) > > NOWHERE="changed/path" > #NOWHERE="file" > > rm $WC_PATH/trunk/file > > ln -s $NOWHERE $WC_PATH/trunk/file > > # By the way: uncomment the following line and comment out the previous one > for comparison > #echo "link $NOWHERE" > $WC_PATH/trunk/file > > # 4. Create diff between repository HEAD and working copy: > > $SVN diff --git $REPOSITORY_URL $WC_PATH > > echo "" > echo "" > echo "-----------------------------------------" > echo "If you see something like" > echo "-content" > echo "+link $NOWHERE" > echo "And svn:special property set to '*'" > echo "Then consider test passed" > echo "-----------------------------------------"
