Re: Replacing directory by circular symlink produces malformed XML

2019-03-05 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 1, 2019, at 15:54, Denis Excoffier wrote: > I have access to the source tree of some development project that is > *not* under any version control system. I would like to build a > minimal level of versioning by committing this source tree into > Subversion at regular intervals, e.g.

Re: Replacing directory by circular symlink produces malformed XML

2019-03-02 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Denis Excoffier wrote on Sat, 02 Mar 2019 09:17 +00:00: > What would be the best strategy? I can figure out this one: > > 1) Within the working copy, delete the existing tree (not svn delete) > 2) Extract the new tree at the same place > 3) Interpret the result of 'svn status' in terms of 'svn

Re: Replacing directory by circular symlink produces malformed XML

2019-03-02 Thread Denis Excoffier
> On 2019-03-01 11:53, Stefan Sperling wrote: > >> > > Hi Denis, > > This problem is not specific to symbolic links. > There are quite a few cases where --xml produces invalid XML > when it runs into some kind of error. Perhaps the command > line client should be fixed to close open XML

Re: Replacing directory by circular symlink produces malformed XML

2019-03-01 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Branko Čibej wrote on Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 12:08:41 +0100: > On 01.03.2019 11:53, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 10:44:25PM +0100, Denis Excoffier wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> The situation of the replacement of a directory by a circular symlink > >> generates an XML fragment

Re: Replacing directory by circular symlink produces malformed XML

2019-03-01 Thread Branko Čibej
On 01.03.2019 11:53, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 10:44:25PM +0100, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> Hello, >> >> The situation of the replacement of a directory by a circular symlink >> generates an XML fragment which is invalid, hence triggers a failure >> within the calling system.

Re: Replacing directory by circular symlink produces malformed XML

2019-03-01 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 10:44:25PM +0100, Denis Excoffier wrote: > Hello, > > The situation of the replacement of a directory by a circular symlink > generates an XML fragment which is invalid, hence triggers a failure > within the calling system. See hereafter the recipe. > > Starting from a

Re: Replacing directory by circular symlink produces malformed XML

2019-03-01 Thread Branko Čibej
On 28.02.2019 22:44, Denis Excoffier wrote: > Hello, > > The situation of the replacement of a directory by a circular symlink > generates an XML fragment which is invalid, hence triggers a failure > within the calling system. See hereafter the recipe. > > Starting from a clean folder, do the

Replacing directory by circular symlink produces malformed XML

2019-03-01 Thread Denis Excoffier
Hello, The situation of the replacement of a directory by a circular symlink generates an XML fragment which is invalid, hence triggers a failure within the calling system. See hereafter the recipe. Starting from a clean folder, do the following: % svn mkdir 1 A 1 % rmdir 1 % ln -s 1 1