[darcs-users] symlinking into darcs repository

Wolfgang Jeltsch wolfgang at jeltsch.net
Fri Oct 28 11:22:26 UTC 2005


Am Donnerstag, 27. Oktober 2005 15:28 schrieb David Roundy:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 07:30:57PM +0200, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > say I have run darcs initialize in a directory /a.  /a contains a
> > subdirectory, named /a/b.  I have a symlink /c, pointing to /a/b.  Now I
> > do cd /c, and then use various darcs commands.  Does darcs know how to
> > handle such a situation or shouldn't I do such things?
>
> I don't know, I think it might work.  It would depend on what
> "getCurrentDirectory" returns--I'm not clear as to how symlinks to
> directories behave, but suspect that it might work just fine.

At least, darcs doesn't complain in any way.  Could it be that I end in 
repository corruption?

Best wishes,
Wolfgang




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