Re: [viewvc-users] How to export svn from viewvc while keeping symlinks?

Jean-Yves Avenard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.viewcvs.user
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No one?

On Friday, 10 June 2011, Jean-Yves Avenard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> Running ViewVC 1.1.11
>
> When I click on Download GNU tar ball, this generates a svn export and
> let you download it directly; which is great.
>
> Problem is with files that are symlink.
>
> Say I have the following directory structure in svn:
>
> TestDir
>  |- foo
>  |- foo.lnk
>
> where foo.lnk is a symlink to foo (created with ln -s foo foo.lnk)
>
> Doing a svn export manually, correctly generates the folder the way it
> should be.
>
> However, when using Download GNU Tarball option, in the generated
> tarfile foo.lnk becomes now a text file with "link foo" instead.
>
> Is there a way to generate tarballs that properly preserve symbolic links ?
>
> Thanks
> JY
>

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