Bug 134332

Summary: kio svn ignores svn:special, thus failing to follow symlinks
Product: [Unmaintained] kio Reporter: Jan Kundrát <jkt>
Component: svnAssignee: Mickael Marchand <marchand>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description Jan Kundrát 2006-09-19 15:20:28 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.4)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

When accessing the symlink stored in the subversion repository, I get "link path/to/the/target.file". That is the actual content as stored in the repo. Symlinks-aware SVN clients should notice the "svn:special" property for this item, read the contents of the file, notice that it begins with "link " and behave as if accessing the target file.

Motivation - I store some of my digitcal camera pictures to the SVN repo. It's quite convenient for tracking metadata changes, comparing several versions of color-postprocessed images etc. It's nice that Kuickshow supports the svn kioslave, so I can look at the pictures without making a checkout of the directory. The disadvantage is, however, that I often use a directory layout like "photos/source/person1/", "photos/source/person2/" etc and "sort" them according to the EXIF date by symlinking from the "photos/sorted/" directory.

How much work do you estimate would be needed for this to work? How strong C++ experience is required?
Comment 1 Jan Kundrát 2007-06-19 21:48:23 UTC 
Mickael, are you willing to fix this?
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2018-08-24 21:48:59 UTC 
I'm afraid the SVN KIOSlave was never ported to Frameworks 5, and it's not likely that it ever will be, given the continuously decreasing popularity of SVN. Therefore, I have to close this bug report.