[issue1276] Replacing directory with symlink causes cryptic error message upon update

[edgimar]

New submission from edgimar <edgimar at gmail.com>:

I recently changed a repo in the following way:  I deleted a directory (which
was under revision control), and replaced the directory with a symlink to
another directory (putting the symlink under revision control).  After
committing these changesets to a central repo, when others want to pull them and
update, they get the message:

abort: Is a directory: <path to directory which was deleted>

Is there any way to make it clearer to the people updating that they need to
delete the directory?

I would say that the directory should probably *not* be automatically deleted,
since there may be files in it not under revision control.  But the user *does*
need to know that the error msg means that the directory must be deleted in
order to be able to update.

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messages: 6842
nosy: edgimar
priority: bug
status: unread
title: Replacing directory with symlink causes cryptic error message upon update

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