At a guess the problem here is that 'status' dereferences the symlink when it shouldn't or didn't, so I don't think this is related to #4091.
Could you file a new issue for this? And, if possible, provide a reproduction script. Thanks, Daniel Fridtjof Busse wrote on Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 16:02:19 +0100: > Hi, > > we've started to test Subversion 1.7.3 on linux and noticed a somewhat > drastaic change in svn behavior. > Our repo (also 1.7, a svnsync copy) contains a lot of symlinks and externals. > Different from Subversion 1.6, every one of those symlinks shows up as "M" in > "svn status". > "svn diff" chokes on those files (which point to an external dir), like this: > svn: E000021: Can't read file '/home/fbusse/repo/symlinktests/link': Is a > directory > > "link" is a symlink to a directory one level up. > > "svn commit" also fails with this: > svn: E145001: Commit failed (details follow): > svn: E145001: Entry '/home/fbusse/repo/symlinktests/link' has unexpectedly > changed special status > > Any ideas? It looks very much like a bug, might be related to issue 4091. > > Please CC me, thanks. > > -- > Empfehlen Sie GMX DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir > belohnen Sie mit bis zu 50,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.gmx.de
