On Jan 28, 2011, at 6:05 PM, Doug Currie wrote:
>> But the target file or directory could not exist at all, so it won't solve
>> the problem.
> What is "the problem?" I thought the problem was knowing if the link to be
> created was to a directory or to a file.
Exactly. But we don't know if the link points to a directory or a file, when
the target path doesn't exist.
Example:
$ ln -s randomfilename newlink
We don't know what kind of link it is -- folder or file, because
"randomfilename" doesn't exist.
Now:
$ mkdir randomfilename
-- newlink points to directory.
$ rm randomfilename
$ touch randomfilename
-- newlink now points to file.
$ rm randomfilename
-- newlink doesn't exist.
$ fossil add newlink
-- now we don't know if newlink points to file or folder.
On Windows:
C:\> fossil open ../repository
(deep inside Fossil's code)
CreateSymbolicLink("newlink", "randomfilename", FILE_OR_FOLDER)
FILE_OR_FOLDER?
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Dmitry Chestnykh
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