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

"C. Michael Pilato" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.viewcvs.user
Organization CollabNet, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sorry, JY -- I read your message but haven't had the chance to really
deep-dive and respond to it.


On 06/14/2011 11:01 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> 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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