strange symbolic link error after svn convert

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Tue Apr 27 13:51:54 CDT 2010


On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 17:03 +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I am working with :
> Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.5)
> 
> and I have just cloned a public svn repository using :
> 
> 	hg convert svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk/
> 
> after some hours work and revision messages, I finally had a trunk-hg
> mercurial repository.
> 
> when I try to checkout the sources with
> 
> 	hg update
> 
> I get the following error from mercurial :
> 
> 	abort: path 'target/linux/brcm-2.4/image/Makefile' traverses symbolic link 'target/linux/brcm-2.4/image'
> 
> Is that a known problem with an available fix ?

No, we haven't heard of that one.

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