Author: bodewig
Date: Fri Apr 16 20:09:48 2010
New Revision: 935067
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=935067&view=rev
Log:
document that symlink's link attribute is not resolved against basedir
Modified:
ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/OptionalTasks/symlink.html
Modified: ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/OptionalTasks/symlink.html
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/OptionalTasks/symlink.html?rev=935067&r1=935066&r2=935067&view=diff
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--- ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/OptionalTasks/symlink.html (original)
+++ ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/OptionalTasks/symlink.html Fri Apr 16 20:09:48
2010
@@ -48,7 +48,13 @@ set of links to record, or a set of prop
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">link</td>
- <td valign="top">The name of the link to be created or deleted.</td>
+ <td valign="top">The name of the link to be created or deleted.<br/>
+ <b>Note</b> this attribute is resolved against the current
+ working directory rather than the project's basedir for
+ historical reasons. It is recommended you always use an
+ absolute path or a path like <code>${basedir}/some-path</code>
+ as its value.
+ </td>
<td valign="center" align="center" >required for
action="single" or "delete". Ignored in other actions.</td>
</tr>
