[darcs-users] Re: Darcs & symbolic links

Mark Stosberg mark at summersault.com
Fri Jan 14 00:20:19 UTC 2005


On 2005-01-13, tnorth at bluewin.ch <tnorth at bluewin.ch> wrote:
> Hello,
> Darcs seems not to be able to follow symbolic links: i think this may sometimes
> be usefull.
> For exemple I am using darcs for a Web project containing mysql bases, located
> in /var/lib/mysql/ that I cannot update from my project (which contains symbolic
> link to that rep, or one of its subdirs) using darcs add :
>
> $darcs add * -r 
> [...]
> File link does not exist!
> [...]
>
> Of course I could use a script to check file changes and copy it into /var/lib/mysql
> using cron, but that's not the best way I think.
>
> What do you think about it ?

Would using a hard link instead work for you?

    Mark





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