On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 14:59:21 -0500
Martin Gagnon <eme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 08:13:54PM +0200, John Found wrote:
> > On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 12:03:13 -0500
> > Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On 2/1/18, Martin Gagnon <eme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I could reproduce it. I didn't have much time to investigate it for now
> > > > but I have attached a simple shell script that reproduce the problem
> > > > starting from scratch.
> > > >
> > > > Just put the shell script on an empty directory and execute it.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the repro script.
> > >
> > > If found that it does work if your break up the operation into two
> > > distinct steps.
> > >
> > > (1) "fossil rm" the old files that will be changed into symlinks.
> > > Then "fossil commit".
> > >
> > > (2) "fossil add" the new symlinks. Then "fossil commit" again.
> > >
> > > The revised script that works is attached.
> > >
> > > It would be great if it worked in a single step. But this is an
> > > obscure case for which there is (now) a work-around, so it is of lower
> > > priority for the moment.
> > >
> > > --
> > > D. Richard Hipp
> > > d...@sqlite.org
> >
> > Yes, thanks, I was able to commit this way. Hope, the bug will not be hard
> > to fix.
> >
> > Anyway, another obscure case is when the symlink points to a directory. In
> > this
> > case fossil adds the files of the directory twice - from the original
> > directory and from
> > the symlink. I was not able to make fossil to add to the repository only
> > the symlink itself.
>
> If you do: "fossil set allow-symlink 1" on the opened checkout, it
> should works and add only the symlink.
I set "allow-symlink" through the UI, so it was 1 when I added the files.
For me the logic is simple, but fossil (obviously) use something more complex:
if allow_symlink == 1 then
never follow symlinks, process them as usual files
else
always follow symlinks, process the file they point to.
>
> But you will have same problem as with the symlink to file if you try to
> replace the directory by a symlink in one single step. You need to do it
> in 2 commits.
>
> So the same work around apply:
>
> 0. be sure allow-symlink is ON
> $ fossil set allow-symlink 1
>
> 1. remove directory and all it content:
> $ fossil rm a_dir
> $ rm -rf a_dir
>
> 2. commit the change (remove real dir and it's content)
> $ fossil commit -m "remove dir a_dir and it's content"
>
> 3. create the symlink, add the symlink and commit.
> $ ln -s another_dir a_dir
> $ fossil add a_dir
>
> 4. commit the change (add symlink)
> $ fossil commit -m "add symlink a_dir"
>
>
> Regards,
>
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> Martin G.
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