On 28.02.2019 22:44, Denis Excoffier wrote: > Hello, > > The situation of the replacement of a directory by a circular symlink > generates an XML fragment which is invalid, hence triggers a failure > within the calling system. See hereafter the recipe. > > Starting from a clean folder, do the following: > > % svn mkdir 1 > A 1 > % rmdir 1 > % ln -s 1 1 > % touch 2 > % svn status --xml > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <status> > <target > path="."> > <entry > path="1"> > <wc-status > item="obstructed" > revision="-1" > props="none"> > </wc-status> > </entry> > svn: E000062: Can't open directory '/Users/dexco/svntest/svn/1': Too many > levels of symbolic links > % > > There is a missing end tag for <target> and <status>. > Another issue is missing output: path '2' is not listed. > > The correction of these issues will be much appreciated (i use 1.11.1).
You can't expect valid output from a command that fails. I'd have thought that was obvious? -- Brane
