$ uname -a Linux delora 2.6.24-24-386 #1 Tue Jul 7 19:12:52 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
SYNOPSIS: When presented with self-referencing symbolic links, fossil seems to keep adding real files until some large maximum [something] is reached. DETAILS: I downloaded webmachine and ran the quickstart. http://bitbucket.org/justin/webmachine/wiki/QuickStart The quickstart procedure gives me a /tmp/mywebdemo directory with code and symbolic links back to the installation location of webmachine. I added more code into the src directory for my testing. I decided I wanted to version control some tests I had that were working. I went to my docs directory where a repo is already open and did $ mkdir webmachine $ cp --recursive /tmp/mywebdemo webmachine $ du -Ls webmachine 4124 webmachine/ $ fossil add webmachine $ fossil ci -m "added webmachine demo" Oops, now my repository file is about 13.5 MegaBytes larger, not 4 MB larger as I expected. Apparently, fossil kept referencing a symbolic-link loop between the webmachine installation and the /tmp/mywebdemo directory. I think it is in the deps subdirectory. Anyway, I gave the above detail in case you want to reproduce the same scenario. I suspect that any self-referencing symbolic links would cause a similar [what I consider] problem. I tried an undo and revert but they apparently don't work on a checkin. QUESTION: 1) Did I really find a bug or would there have been some kind of extra argument I could have used - something like "don't follow symbolic links" (well, not loops anyway). ~Michael _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
