hg revert on symbolic links???

[Michael Smith]

Alexis S. L. Carvalho wrote:
> Thus spake Eric St-Jean:
>>Hi,
>>i tried hg revert on a symlink, and all i get is:
>>abort: Is a directory
>>
>>I updated to the very latest (just now) and tried it again, with the
>>same result. Before i file a bug (or maybe try to fix it), i wanted to
>>check if i'm missing something obvious.
> 
> Yup, looks like a bug.  Can you open an issue?  Please include:
> 
> - steps to reproduce (AFAICS, the symlink has to point to a directory)
> - output of the command you ran with --traceback
> 

I saw a problem recently with 0.9.1 where a user replaced a file with a 
sym link to a copy of the file, and hg didn't recognise it as a modified 
file, even though it had his changes in it.

Deleting the sym link and renaming the file back fixed the problem.
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