Symbolic links are traversed on deletion
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Key: CONTINUUM-971
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CONTINUUM-971
Project: Continuum
Issue Type: Bug
Affects Versions: 1.0.3
Environment: Reproduced on Redhat Enterprise 4 but applicable to all
forms of UNIX
Reporter: Uri Moszkowicz
Priority: Critical
To reproduce:
1. Create a project that checks out files from some SCM
2. Create a build script that creates symbolic links outside of the checked out
project sandbox. This is often done to bring outside libraries into the project.
3. Delete the created project from the Continuum website. Notice how all kinds
of files disappear from your file system!
>From looking at the release logs it looks like someone added follow symbolic
>links as the default and mentioned that at some point in the future an option
>should be added to disable this behavior. Following symbolic links is very
>dangerous and if supported it should be disabled by default, not the reverse.
>A warning should be posted in a visible place for the existing versions until
>this can be fixed as it can result in significant data loss outside of the
>Continuum program.
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