On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 04:34:07PM -0500, Hyrum K. Wright wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name>wrote: > > > How would recursing interact with symlinks into working copy dirs? > > (I know we it have been discussed before; a pointer would be appreciated) > > > > eg: > > > > svn co $SVN_TRUNK trunk > > ln -s trunk/notes notes > > cd notes > > svn st > > > > Isn't this just a subset of the "severable working copy" use case?
I think Daniel means we should check if we're traversing a symbolic link going upwards, do a readlink() on it and continue searching for .svn upwards from where the link points to. And maybe stop after N iterations to protect the innocent who set up symlink loops accidentally :) Stefan
