Re: [PATCH/RFC v2] git svn: work around SVN 1.7 mishandling of svn:special changes

2012-10-10 Thread Eric Wong
Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > > Revisions prepared with ordinary svn commands ("svn add" and not "svn > > propset") don't trip this because they represent filetype changes > > using a replace operation [...] > >Perhaps

[PATCH/RFC v2] git svn: work around SVN 1.7 mishandling of svn:special changes

2012-10-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Subversion represents symlinks as ordinary files with content starting with "link " and the svn:special property set to "*". Thus a file can switch between being a symlink and a non-symlink simply by toggling its svn:special property, and new checkouts will automatically write a file of the approp