> On Mar 3, 2016, at 12:53 PM, Philip Martin <philip.mar...@wandisco.com> wrote: > > jbl...@icloud.com writes: > >>>>> On Mar 2, 2016, at 10:16 AM, txm <tmell...@web.de> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> $ svn info /home/user/nodes/dev_5_main >>>>> svn: '/home/user/nodes' is not a working copy > >>> On Mar 3, 2016, at 12:06 AM, txm <tmell...@web.de> wrote: >>> >>> Sorry, >>> >>> svn, version 1.6.6 (r40053) >>> svn is hashed (/usr/bin/svn) >>> DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS" > >> Version 1.6 is no longer supported. If there is indeed some bug in the >> 1.6 client that causes the behavior you describe it will not be fixed >> in the 1.6 release branch. If you can, upgrade to either 1.8 or 1.9. > > Symbolic links break some 1.6 operations: > > $ svn1.6 co file:///... wc > $ svn1.6 info $PWD/wc | grep Kind > Node Kind: directory > $ ln -s wc wc2 > $ svn1.6 info $PWD/wc2 > svn: '/home/pm/sw/subversion/obj3' is not a working copy > > -- > Philip Martin > WANdisco
In the changelog, it looks like this issue was fixed in 1.7.0. We have this entry: * allow 'svn info' to work on symlinks to working copies (issue #2305)
