Greetings, the problem I'm having seems to be either Mercurial or Cygwin related. I'm currently using Mercurial 2.4.2 and Cygwin 1.7.17, which I'm running with the "winsymlinks" option in the "CYGWIN" environment variable:
@echo off set CYGWIN=glob:noignorecase proc_retry:10 nodosfilewarning winsymlinks set PATH=c:\cygwin\bin C: chdir C:\cygwin\bin sh --login -i Even though the problem surfaced in a rather large repository, I could reproduce it in an almost empty one, like this: $ hg --version Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 2.4.2) (see http://mercurial.selenic.com for more information) Copyright (C) 2005-2012 Matt Mackall and others This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.0 tablet 1.7.17(0.262/5/3) 2012-10-19 14:39 i686 Cygwin $ mkdir Test $ cd Test $ hg init $ touch a $ ln -s a la $ ls -l total 1 -rw------- 1 Rainer none 0 Apr 9 15:37 a lrwxrwxrwx 1 Rainer none 1 Apr 9 15:37 la -> a $ hg add * $ hg status A a A la $ hg commit -m test. $ rm * $ hg status ! a ! la $ hg update -C 2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved $ ls -l total 1 -rw------- 1 Rainer none 0 Apr 9 15:40 a -rw------- 1 Rainer none 1 Apr 9 15:40 la $ cat la a$ Mind that while the first "ls" command shows "la" to be a symbolic link, the second "ls" and the "cat" commands show "la" to be a plain file containing the single character file name (without trailing newline character) the symbolic link was originally pointing to. Since I cannot reproduce this link killing behaviour under OpenSolaris using Mercurial 1.7.3 (a bit outdated, yes, but this is not under my control :-), I suspect this could be Cygwin rather than Mercurial related. Any help would be appreciated, and please also reply to me personally, as I am not subscribed to this list. Sincerely Rainer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Rainer M Woitok | Phone : (+49 60 93) 487 95 95 | | Kolpingstraße 3 | Mobile: (+49 172) 813 6 831 | | D-63846 Laufach | Mail : woi...@rrze.uni-erlangen.de | | Germany | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
