On 25 Nov 2011, at 22:02, Barry Kauler wrote: > Hi guys, > I am just getting started with Fossil again, after a brief fling back > in late 2009. I was very impressed, but my project has lots of > symlinks, which is what brought me to a halt before. > > When I created my "woof2" repository, I ticked "allow-symlinks". All > seemed well, however when I did a test clone of the repository, > symlinks were turned off, so when I did "fossil open" all I got were > files, not symlinks. > > So, I thought, perhaps I need to put .fossil-settings/allow-symlinks > (with content "on") into the repository: > > # fossil add --dotfiles .fossil-settings > > I pushed that, then cloned, nup still no symlinks. > > Bye the way, does it cause any conflict have .fossil-settings in the > repository? > > So then I thought of creating .fossil-settings/allow-symlinks after > cloning and just before running "fossil open ../woof2.fossil". Still > no go.
"allow-symlinks" is not a versionable setting. Is there a reason why it shouldn't be? It sounds like it should be as it affects the checked out files. To change it to a versionable setting: * Add a 1 in the versionable column the entry in ctrlSettings in db.c * Add '(versionable)' to the documentation below * Add to the list in settings.wiki Ben -- http://bens.me.uk/ _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
