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Re: [Savannah-help-public] Re: Fw: CVS for webpages not mirroring?
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Yavor Doganov |
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Re: [Savannah-help-public] Re: Fw: CVS for webpages not mirroring? |
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Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:56:36 +0300 |
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Ben Pfaff wrote:
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> > Apparently there was a index.html->pspp.html obsolete entry in
> > '.symlinks'. I removed it.
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> Wow, I look silly now.
No, you don't: .symlinks files are something very obscure and just a
dirty workaround for CVS' inability to deal with real symlinks. It is
entirely natural to forget, or not to know in the first place, about
their existence and semantics. False alarms like this one are a
"feature" of the .symlinks dirt-hack-around-and-mostly-nefarious
implementation. It works, though.
JFTR, I believe there are maximum 4 or 5 webmasters from the whole www
crowd who understand how to deal with .symlinks files properly, and
they have to do it more frequently than any other GNU maintainer. So
no reason to feel guilty here, AFAICT.