Re: [SVN-MIGRATION] Symbolic link between PECL and PHP for OCI8?

On Jan 22, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Christopher Jones wrote:
>> There are no symlinks possible in SVN.
> My googling says sym links are available in SVN from 1.1 - at least on
> Unix.  And I believe on Windows it would give you a copy of the linked
> files.

You can't symlink in the repository, only client-side. This kind of  
symlinking isn't suitable for the purpose.

>> The directory will show up when you check out the module
>> using the SVN client.
> I installed SVN 1.5.5 and did indeed get the external repositories
> pulled when I ran:
>
>    svn --username=sixd co http://svn.php.net/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_3/
>
> For the record, svn 1.4.2 failed to pull all the external
> repositories.  Checkout fails at the end with:
>
>    Fetching external item into 'PHP_5_3/ext/^/php/pecl/bz2/branches/ 
> PHP_5_3'
>    svn: '.' is not a working copy
>    svn: Can't open file '.svn/entries': No such file or directory
>
> Based on Hannes's comment about not using svn 1.5.1, I assume that
> 1.5.2 is the minimum client version needed, not that there was  
> something
> buggy just in 1.5.1?

Relative pathing support for externals was added in 1.5, and we make  
use of that. 1.4 will not work. We also require 1.5 for the merging  
improvements.

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