Should I open a ticket for the below ? There is a question at the end.
~M On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 06:25:15PM -0700, Michael McDaniel wrote: > $ 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 _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
