[darcs-users] symlinking into darcs repository

[David Roundy]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 01:22:26PM +0200, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> 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?

I don't see how it could cause corruption.  Darcs always moves into the
root directory of a repository at the beginning of the command, so if this
works, darcs shouldn't ever know about your symlink /c.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.darcs.net