I'm tring to commit a symlink into subversion, but I get this error when I try to add the actual symlink:
Can't replace 'path/to/symlink' with a node of a differing type; the deletion must be committed and the parent updated before adding 'path/to/symlink'
Git can track symlinks as well as any other text files. After all, as the documentation says, a symbolic link is nothing but a file with special mode containing the path to the referenced file.
In computing, a symbolic link (also symlink or soft link) is a file whose purpose is to point to a file or directory (called the "target") by specifying a path thereto. Symbolic links are supported by POSIX and by most Unix-like operating systems, such as FreeBSD, Linux, and macOS.
You cannot use a symbolic link to run an .exe file or execute a script file in Internet Explorer 10. Important: The Internet Explorer 11 desktop application is retired and out of support as of June 15, 2022 for certain versions of Windows 10.
No. rm -rf won't follow symbolic links - it will simply remove them.
I read it as - you have to remove the file, commit, update, create symlink, add it, commit.
And my guess is that you're trying to remove the file, create symlink, commit in one go.
find . -type l | xargs -i -x svn propset svn:special on {}
The error I got on svn 1.6.11 reads
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Entry '/path/to/symlink' has unexpectedly changed special status
I fixed it by simply
svn propset svn:special on /path/to/symlink
And then rerunning the commit. Apparently no need to delete, update, etc....
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