> > I have not found anything about this behavior in the bug tracker. > > Is this "by design" or is it a Subversion bug? > > I'm pretty sure there's an issue filed for this already. I'd have > expected a search for "symlink" to turn it up.
This issue is the "closest match" that I have found: "Symbolic links are sometimes traversed" ( http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3116 ) Do you think that this is the same problem? If not... shall I file a new bug report? > The whole topic of 'symlink to working copy' (and whether the symlink > itself is versioned of not) is... fun. Maybe it's better in 1.8 than in > 1.7? I didn't follow development in that area closely. The symlink is itself versioned. I have built Subversion 1.8.0-dev and checked whether it fixes the problem, but the error message is exactly the same as in 1.7.8.
