rod mclaughlin

Subversion can't handle soft link reversal (29 jul 11)

Say you have a soft link pointing to a file with the same name in another folder. You check it into Subversion, and Subversion understands that one is a soft link and one is a hard link.

Then you decide to reverse the situation, and make the file in the other folder a soft link pointing to a file, which is a real file where the original soft link was. When you try to check in, Subversion says

"Entry 'foobar.rb' has unexpectedly changed special status"

I'd bet money Git would not have that problem

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