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Merge lp://qastaging/~parthm/bzr/242522-symlink-repo-to-usb-stick into lp://qastaging/bzr

242522-symlink-repo-to-usb-stick
Merge into bzr.dev

Proposed by Parth Malwankar on 2012-02-26

Status:

Work in progress

Proposed branch:

lp://qastaging/~parthm/bzr/242522-symlink-repo-to-usb-stick

Merge into:

lp://qastaging/bzr

Diff against target:

65 lines (+33/-1)

3 files modified

bzrlib/tests/test_transform.py (+21/-0)
bzrlib/transform.py (+7/-1)
doc/en/release-notes/bzr-2.6.txt (+5/-0)

To merge this branch:

bzr merge lp://qastaging/~parthm/bzr/242522-symlink-repo-to-usb-stick

Medium

In Progress

Link a bug report

Reviewer	Review Type	Date Requested	Status
bzr-core		2012-02-26	Pending
Review via email: mp+94679@code.qastaging.launchpad.net

Description of the change

This patch updates updates transform.create_symlink to issue a warning in case the target filesystem (e.g. fat mounted on Linux) does not support symlinks. It catches OSError EPERM and issues a warning to the user. The branch is created / updated but the symlink is not created.

This patch along with https://code.launchpad.net/~parthm/bzr/81689-win-symlink-warning/+merge/93784 allow bzr to work with repos containing symlinks on file systems that don't allow symlinks by ignoring symlinks (i.e. not creating them at all).

Revision history for this message

Parth Malwankar (parthm) wrote on 2012-02-29:

Marking as in-progress at the moment. Will resubmit along with 81689 patch to ensure that both patches have consistent behavior and messages.

Unmerged revisions

6478. By Parth Malwankar on 2012-02-26: updated release notes
6477. By Parth Malwankar on 2012-02-26: added test
6476. By Parth Malwankar on 2012-02-25: symlink skipped if target filesystem does not support symlinks