symbolic links

[Erik Bågfors]

It will do the right thing. Try this

: [erik at zmaco]$ ; bzr init t
: [erik at zmaco]$ ; cd t
: [erik at zmaco]$ ; echo hej > a
: [erik at zmaco]$ ; ln -s a b
: [erik at zmaco]$ ; bzr add
added a
added b

: [erik at zmaco]$ ; bzr ci -m 1
added a
added b
Committed revision 1.

: [erik at zmaco]$ ; rm b

: [erik at zmaco]$ ; echo heeeej > b

: [erik at zmaco]$ ; bzr st
kind changed:
  b (symlink => file)

: [erik at zmaco]$ ; bzr ci -m 2
modified b
Committed revision 2.

/Erik

On 8/3/07, Philippe Roud <philippe.roud at rero.ch> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't use bazaar now as my company has a svn server but I like the way
> bazaar works in general.
> I may use it for new projects but this depends on the way it treat
> symbolic links (under osx / linux).
>
> The situation is the following:
> We have a software that use one global instance and several "local"
> instances.
> the config files of the local instance are mainly symlinked to the
> global instance but if you want a local special config you create
> a local copy of the config file.
>
> How does bazaar react if a particular file was a symlink, the user edit
> the file with vi and broke the link (i.e. create a local copy)?
> Do we need to do sth special (remove the link from bazaar and re-add the
> local file) or a simple commit will do the trick?
>
>
> Best regards
>
> PHiLippe
>
>