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But from the user's point of view it might have been present and
unknown, in which case the right thing would be to unversion it and
leave it in the tree.

> And to add to the confusion, revert does work as I expect
> for normal files, but not symlinks.
> If that behaviour is by design then can you please explain the
> rationale, cos I don't get it.

I hadn't realized that was the case but it does seem to be so.  It
should be consistent.

-- 
Martin