| Ticket Hash: | aa494b5832ac1a1ee098d96278f08c0cb7e112b9 | |||
| Title: | Fossil changes symlinks into seperate files | |||
| Status: | Fixed | Type: | Code_Defect | |
| Severity: | Severe | Priority: | ||
| Subsystem: | Resolution: | Fixed | ||
| Last Modified: | 2013-04-13 10:04:41 | |||
| Version Found In: | 37f295c310 | |||
| Description: | ||||
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When fossil adds directories that contain symbolic links to other directories in a fossil repository, on future checkouts the symbolic link will become an entirely seperate copy of the entire directory structure that was pointed to on disk. See below explanatory logs for example / steps to reproduce.
Esp. look at the two outputs of "ls -l three/". $ fossil version This is fossil version [37f295c310] 2009-09-21 19:19:20 UTC $ fossil new tmp.fossil-scm [...] $ fossil open tmp.fossil-scm $ mkdir -p one/two three $ echo testing > one/two/txt.txt $ (cd three && ln -s ../one/two) $ ls -l three/ total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 djbclark djbclark 10 2009-09-29 15:05 two -> ../one/two $ fossil add one three ADDED one/two/txt.txt ADDED three/two/txt.txt $ fossil commit -m "test of unexpected behavior" --nosign New_Version: 160e9429f44953ea6f42902f62a706dd3838775c $ fossil close $ rm -rf manifest manifest.uuid one three $ ls tmp.fossil-scm $ fossil open tmp.fossil-scm one/two/txt.txt three/two/txt.txt [...] $ ls -l three/ total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 djbclark djbclark 4096 2009-09-29 15:07 two # above - now "magically" an actual seperate copy, not a symlink $ grep txt.txt manifest F one/two/txt.txt 9801739daae44ec5293d4e1f53d3f4d2d426d91c F three/two/txt.txt 9801739daae44ec5293d4e1f53d3f4d2d426d91c # above - at least I'm guessing this means it doesn't take up extra # space in the repository, but stat shows they do take up extra # space on disk (different inodes) , which sucks esp. for this # project which needs to fit on a certain size of media... $ stat one/two/txt.txt File: `one/two/txt.txt' Size: 8 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 801h/2049d Inode: 319977 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 1000/djbclark) Gid: ( 1000/djbclark) Access: 2009-09-29 15:07:33.000000000 -0400 Modify: 2009-09-29 15:07:33.000000000 -0400 Change: 2009-09-29 15:07:33.000000000 -0400 $ stat three/two/txt.txt File: `three/two/txt.txt' Size: 8 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 801h/2049d Inode: 319980 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 1000/djbclark) Gid: ( 1000/djbclark) Access: 2009-09-29 15:07:33.000000000 -0400 Modify: 2009-09-29 15:07:33.000000000 -0400 Change: 2009-09-29 15:07:33.000000000 -0400 (Putting Re: limiting symlinks in ticket form.) dmitry added on 2011-09-08 18:56:37 UTC: | ||||
| User Comments: | ||||
nobody added on 2013-04-13 09:17:42:
Try this first: $ fossil settings allow-symlinks on nobody added on 2013-04-13 10:04:41: I didn't realise this ticket was already fixed and was over a year and a half old! Silly mistake. I found it on Google and it was close to the beginning of the list of results, so I assumed it was rather a recent ticket. I do apologise for any inconvenience caused by this. | ||||