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  • Committer: Richard Wilbur
  • Date: 2016-02-04 19:07:28 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 6618.
  • Revision ID: richard.wilbur@gmail.com-20160204190728-p0zvfii6zase0fw7
Update COPYING.txt from the original http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt  (Only differences were in whitespace.)  Thanks to Petr Stodulka for pointing out the discrepancy.

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Transports that hide symlinks
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On local, sftp and bzr+ssh transports, we can directly see symlinks as
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symlinks.  Over http (and ftp?) they're expanded by the server and we
 
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On local, SFTP and bzr+ssh transports, we can directly see symlinks as
 
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symlinks.  Over HTTP (and FTP?) they're expanded by the server and we
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cannot detect them.  This can cause problems when bzr follows relative
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paths because typically we will join the paths, and we may do this
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inconsistently with how the server, which can see the symlinks, would do.