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Re: cvs and .lnk files
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:57:13AM +0100, Keith Starsmeare wrote:
> I've run into a problem using cygwin and CVS; it doesn't like checking out
> files which use the lnk extension:
>
> cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file .new.COSMIC.LNK to COSMIC.LNK: No
> such file or directory
>
> I know that I should slap the person who used the lnk file extension (I
> think these sources were originally for a DOS box; if that's any excuse!),
> but is there a workaround? I checked them out onto a Linux box and then
> tar'd them up and untar'd them on my NT box without problem (shouldn't tar
> suffer the same problem?).
>
> This is probably due to the new symlinks (which I think are cool btw).
It is and there's no workaround in 1.3.2. The next version will
treat non-cygwin symlinks as normal files again. Only .lnk links
created by Cygwin (or U/WIN, btw.) are then treated as symlinks.
Corinna
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