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On 5/25/07, Georg Brandl <g.brandl@gmx.net> wrote:

Neal Norwitz schrieb:
> On 5/25/07, Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:
>> In my bcannon-objcap branch I am trying to check in a change that involves a
>> soft symlink from Lib/controlled_importlib.py to

>> ../importlib/controlled_importlib.py through ``ln -s
>> ../controlled_importlib.py controlled_importlib.py`` while in the Lib
>> directory.  I have done this before in this branch so as to allow for easy

>> importing of code from the svn import of importlib that the branch contains.
>
> I don't know that we've ever tested the commit hook with a link.
> Maybe there is some other problem.


The cause: For symlinks, SVN saves a file containing "link /target" and sets
the "svn:special" property. Since the special file doesn't end with a newline,
reindent adds that, and boom.


The solution: add
     if fs.node_prop(txn_root, path, 'svn:special') == '*': continue

in the commit hook's for loop.


Great!  So can someone do this?  I don't know where the svn hook code is stored, let alone whether I have access to commit a change.


-Brett