[darcs-users] Re: symlink support

[David Roundy]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 06:24:32PM -0700, Vonleigh Simmons wrote:
> > Unfortunately, the changes would go very deep in the code.  We'd need
> > to modify Slurpy to hold symlinks, and have to add a new patch type
> 
> 	How hard would it be to just add a "don't_follow_symlinks" option?
> This way I wouldn't get errors that say that the file was already added
> (it's basically just following a symlink to the same file).

But darcs doesn't follow symlinks.  Certainly on my system (I just checked)
it doesn't... when I try to add a symlink I get a complaint that the file
doesn't exist.
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David Roundy
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