Bug 219634

Summary:	Kate now resolves symlinks to real paths
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Alexander Wigen <bugzilla>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	christoph
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Alexander Wigen 2009-12-22 06:02:02 UTC

Version:           3.3.85 (using 4.3.85 (KDE 4.3.85 (KDE 4.4 Beta2)), Gentoo)
Compiler:          i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.32-gentoo

Kate's behavior when opening files using a symlink has changed, this might be intentional and this bug might be a "won-fix".

I work with many different SVN branches of the same code base, the most efficient way I have found is to have a directory with all the branches and a symlink "current" pointing to the branch I'm working on. I can the close Kate, update the symlink to a different branch and reopen kate which will reopen all files using the "current" symlink to open the file.

The changed behavior now resolves the symlink to the path it points to, which of course breaks this workflow.

I'd like this behavior reverted, but there might be other reasons for changing it?

Comment 1 Christoph Cullmann 2010-02-17 00:01:13 UTC

Kate hasn't changed its internal behaviour for urls, I guess this is a framework wide change, therefor yes, is a wont fix, sorry :(