Symlink kind changed to file on windows

[Alexander Belchenko]

Thanks. I've added README and guard code which blocks this plugin entirely from working.
The block can be turned into warning, patches accepted.

Paul Harris пишет:
> 
> 
> 2009/11/25 Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net <mailto:bialix at ukr.net>>
> 
>     Paul Harris пишет:
>     > Can someone please add this information to the win32symlink
>     website, and
>     > it would also be good if some comment was added its repo, so when
>     people
>     > pull updates, they are told that the plugin is broken.
> 
>     I suppose you're talking about https://launchpad.net/bzr-win32symlinks
> 
> 
> yes
>  
> 
>     I don't have control over this page, but I can change the branch
>     https://code.launchpad.net/~bialix/bzr-win32symlinks/trunk
>     <https://code.launchpad.net/%7Ebialix/bzr-win32symlinks/trunk>
> 
>     If you care to provide a patch or at least the text I need to add,
>     I'll be happy to update the branch.
> 
> 
> I have no idea how I would patch it, especially since its not a bzr
> command that you call, so what would be the trigger for displaying text?
> 
> as for the text, I'd maybe say:
> 
> """
> win32symlink is currently broken because it hasn't been updated as we
> implemented different code paths for reading/writing/etc files on disk.
> 
> It appears that win32symlink still handles the 'write' side, but it no
> longer handles the 'read' side. (So you can checkout something that has
> symlinks, but you can't status/commit them correctly.)
> 
> If you require symlinks to work on your windows platform, either:
> a) Use Cygwin's native bzr, which handles symlinks and permissions natively
> or
> b) Discuss a solution with the bazaar mailing list - the functionality
> could potentially be put into the core
> """
> 
> Its a cut-and-paste rehash of the discussion we had, so if any extra
> details can be added then that would only improve things.
> 
> I can personally survive with the Cygwin version since its just one
> project that need the symlinks, and they are "just there", I dont use
> them while in windows at all.   However I still use the Windows bzr in
> my other projects so that I can call it from gvim for diffing  (the
> windows gvim - my cygwin gvim doesn't want to open the display or
> something).
> 
> 
> Who is in charge of the webpage?  I think its important to update it in
> order to warn others of the problems they could be facing.
> 
> 
> thanks,
> Paul
> 



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