Subject: Re: bug#14116: [PATCH] ln: allow to overwrite relative symlink

From: Bernhard Voelker <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 01:06:28 +0200

On 04/03/2013 07:43 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:

> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ln: --relative: fix updating of existing symlinks
> 
> Don't dereference an existing symlink being replaced.
> I.E. generate the symlink relative to the symlink's containing dir,
> rather than to some arbitrary place it points to.
> 
> * src/ln.c (convert_abs_rel): Don't consider the final component
> of the symlink name when canonicalizing, as we to avoid

s/as we to/as to/ ?

> dreferencing the final component.

s/dreferencing/dereferencing/

BTW: the commit message should reference this bug:
  http://bugs.gnu.org/14116

> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] doc: add details on ln --relative symlink resolution
> [...]
> @@ -34,4 +34,15 @@ ln -s dir1/dir2/f existing_link
>  ln -srf here existing_link
>  test $(readlink existing_link) = 'here' || fail=1
>  
> +# Demonstrate resolved symlinks used to generate relative links
> +# so here,'web/latest' will not be linked to the intermediate 'latest' link.

s/,/, /

Apart from the above nits, the 2 patches look good.

Have a nice day,
Berny