[RFC] Treating symlinks as their targets
Matthieu Moy
Matthieu.Moy at imag.fr
Mon Aug 21 19:26:35 BST 2006
Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> writes:
> In order for 'bzr checkout' to behave properly, it would need to
> store both symlink target and target contents
Depending on which spec is desired.
As you point out, it would be a problem for security reasons to allow
bzr to create symlinks pointing to anywhere and then write to the
destination.
But a probably more reasonable spec would be to just keep the symlinks
where they exist, and not to create any other. I mean, in the
repository, these would be only plain files, and "checkout" would
check out the files. It doesn't solve all the problems, though.
--
Matthieu
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