Soft link broken with mercurial

[Pulkit Goyal]

Hi Hari,

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 4:39 AM Hari Kumar Narayanaiyer (NMEC) <
hari.kumar at india.nec.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> I have a repository where I have created softlinks.
>
>
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> *Scenario 1 :*
>
>
>
> Dir 1
>
>     ---- file 1
>
>     ---- file 2 -> file 1
>
>
>
> *Scenario 2 :*
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>
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> Dir 1
>
>    --- Dir 2
>
>    --- Dir 3 -> Dir 2
>
>
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> In both scenarios after commit or after taking the patch and applying the
> patch in another local repository ( same content ), soft link is broken.
> And if file 2 content is verified, it will show as file 1.
>
> Mercurial version used is Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 2.8.2). Why
> soft link is broken? Are there any additional changes which we need to do
> to configure hg?
>
Unrelated to problem, the mercurial version you are using is around 5 years
old. The latest version is 4.8. I strongly recommend you to update the
mercurial to one of the latest version and then try again.

Regards
Pulkit



>
>
> Regards
>
> Hari
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