FYI, beware that there may be a bug with symlinks support in the more recent versions of fossil. I haven't reported it as I haven't had time to reproduce it but a couple of users have complained that when they clone/open a fossil that has allow-symlinks = true that the symlinks are replaced by the pointed to data in the check out. If they check out an older node then check out trunk the data is replaced by the expected symlinks.
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 6:30 PM, j. van den hoff <veedeeh...@googlemail.com > > wrote: > >> modified. so my understanding is when 'on' the softlinks are just >> maintained >> in the repo while when 'off' (the default) the system should behave like >> what you describe: >> track the changes across the softlinks (i.e. the "real content") and >> update >> _that_ content when doing a `fossil up'. or am I missing something? > > > i didn't think about that, but i'm almost certain (almost!) you're right. > That's my understanding from having skipped over symlinks support in > libfossil so far. That means that symlinks support is not what you want for > this purpose. Real symlinks to the files, but symlinks support explicitly > turned off, should serve the basic purpose - having the content of those > files in the repo. IIRC, if symlinks support is off, checking out the repo > initially will create a file under the checkout dir with the contents of > the linked-to file. i think. > > -- > ----- stephan beal > http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ > http://gplus.to/sgbeal > "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of > those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > > -- Matt -=- 90% of the nations wealth is held by 2% of the people. Bummer to be in the majority...
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