On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote:
> 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 :) > That's quite possible. But at this point, we're starting to wander a bit off topic for this list (and out of my league, too). I'll defer this discussion to Greg Stein, who probably has some thoughts on the matter. -Hyrum
