[Bug 5109] New: symlink to a directory that gets replaced by the directory confuses the dickens out of hg

mercurial-bugs at selenic.com mercurial-bugs at selenic.com
Tue Feb 23 02:39:46 UTC 2016


https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5109

            Bug ID: 5109
           Summary: symlink to a directory that gets replaced by the
                    directory confuses the dickens out of hg
           Product: Mercurial
           Version: default branch
          Hardware: PC
                OS: Mac OS
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: feature
          Priority: wish
         Component: Mercurial
          Assignee: bugzilla at selenic.com
          Reporter: durin42 at gmail.com
                CC: mercurial-devel at selenic.com

The folks at Jane Street mentioned this as a problem they've tripped over
repeatedly and they now have a hook or similar to prevent people from doing it.
We should investigate the problem.

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