No symbolic links?

[slektsforsker]

I have installed Eclipse 3.2.1 and Subversive 1.1.0RC6a on my Linux system. I have created projects with File > Import ... > SVN > Projects from SVN which seems to work out fine with just one exception: symbolic links seems to be discarded during the import from my repository.

When I perform a Team > Update on imported projects with symbolic links I get

Update missing resources. The following resources are deleted outside SVN control and update will restore them. If you do not want restoring these resources, please commit it first.

every time.

Is there a way to avoid that symbolic links get discarded during import?

[slektsforsker]

seems this was harder than I expected it to be - as symbolic links is handled ok with other subversion GUI's, I thought I was only missing something in subversive. No good hints anyone?

[Alexander Gurov]

Dear slektsforsker,

Could you please describe steps which we should do in order to reproduce the situation. Should we commit symbolic links into repository and then checkout the project which contains it?

[slektsforsker]

Thanks for responding Alexander

Initially I had an existing repository with several projects containing symbolic links to directories. I created Eclipse projects based on the projects in this repository with File > Import ... > SVN > Projects from SVN

It seems the symbolic links are discarded when creating the Eclipse project as I can not see them in Eclipse. And every time I perform subversion update from Eclipse I get the error message mentioned before.

[slektsforsker]

Please let me know if you need more detailed information

[Alexey Mikoyan]

Dear slektsforsker,

Unfortunately, we cannot reproduce the behavior you have described. We have tested Subversive 1.1.0 Release with Eclipse 3.2.1 on Linux.
At first, we have imported project to repository using SVN command line client. This project contains symbolic links to folders and files.
Then we have tested all SVN clients having all the symbolic links valid.
JavaHL and SVN Kit clients behaves in a similar way and only shows that there are new resources in the folder which is in fact a symbolic link. Default client after checkout marks all linked files and folders and files under linked folders as OBSTRUCTED. This defect we will correct in 1.1.1 Release.
Next we have tested all the clients having all the symbolic links invalid.
All the clients behaves in a similar way and do not take broken links into account.

If you can, please, provide us with detailed information how to reproduce the problem you have described.

[slektsforsker]

Dear Alexey,

before starting over again (to provide a more detailed procedure how to reproduce the problem) I updated Subversive to 1.1.1 and Eclipse to 3.2.2, still on Linux.

The problem seems to have disappeared now. I still can not see the symbolic links in the Navigator window (like I can in other svn GUI's), but the message:

Update missing resources. The following resources are deleted outside SVN control and update will restore them. If you do not want restoring these resources, please commit it first

no longer appears.

Thanks for responding.