Re: [SVN-MIGRATION] Symbolic link between PECL and PHP for OCI8?

On Jan 22, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Christopher Jones wrote:

There are no symlinks possible in SVN.

My googling says sym links are available in SVN from 1.1 - at least on Unix. And I believe on Windows it would give you a copy of the linked files.

You can't symlink in the repository, only client-side. This kind of symlinking isn't suitable for the purpose.

The directory will show up when you check out the module using the SVN client.

I installed SVN 1.5.5 and did indeed get the external repositories pulled when I ran: svn --username=sixd co http://svn.php.net/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_3/ For the record, svn 1.4.2 failed to pull all the external repositories. Checkout fails at the end with: Fetching external item into 'PHP_5_3/ext/^/php/pecl/bz2/branches/PHP_5_3' svn: '.' is not a working copy svn: Can't open file '.svn/entries': No such file or directory Based on Hannes's comment about not using svn 1.5.1, I assume that 1.5.2 is the minimum client version needed, not that there was something buggy just in 1.5.1?

Relative pathing support for externals was added in 1.5, and we make use of that. 1.4 will not work. We also require 1.5 for the merging improvements. -- Gwynne, Daughter of the Code "This whole world is an asylum for the incurable."