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regarding emacs24: svn support fails in a symlinked directory
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Juha Jäykkä <[email protected]> writes:

> Version: 24.2+1-2

> vc-update and other vc-*-commands fail to detect an svn controlled
> directory when the directory is a symlink to an svn controlled
> directory.
>
> The new SVN working copy directory tree only has .svn directory at
> the topmost level and it seems emacs does 'chdir("..")' or something
> equivalent when it tries to find the .svn directory. However, if 
> directory A is a symlink to an svn working copy directory B, then
> looking at A/.. is not the right place to look for .svn; instead,
> emacs should note that A is a symlink, readlink() and look at B/..
> instead.

Further details can be found here:

   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=701711

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