I have a project tracked in svn. On our server, the “index” and “log” folders are symbolic links to folders in a shared directory. I don’t want either of these in svn, and they are causing problems committing and updating: i get an error doing “svn update” on the server:
Expected 'log' to be a directory but found a file
I tried setting them to be ignored, like
svn propset svn:ignore index .
svn propset svn:ignore log .
But update still breaks, and i can’t commit these changes to . because i get this error:
Expected '/ebs/www/apps/e_learning_resource/releases/20110121171004/log' to be a directory but found a file
grateful for any advice – max
Sounds like log is already committed in SVN. Delete it (be careful to keep your local link or be ready to recreate it!), commit the deletion, and your ignore should be good from then on.