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How the fuck did this excuse for a version control system manage to  
integrate (merge for anyone who speaks normally) a file into a symlink  
where the symlink points to a "file" who's name is the contents of the  
original file. If that sounds confusing, don't worry, it is.

Here's the example. The source directory:

% more startAP
print "Sourcing prod settings"
%

The destination directory:

% dir startAP
lrwxrwxrwx    1 martin  users         44 Nov 27 18:35 startAP ->  
print\ "Sourcing\ prod\ settings"
%

How is that even possible? What kind of dimwit even writes software  
that can do something so obviously stupid??

Cheers,

Martin.

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  • perforce Nicholas Clark 20:11 on 30 Dec 2003
  • Martin Ebourne 18:44 on 27 Nov 2006

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