Typo in the Subversion manual

[James Gilbert]

Resending, after spotting my typo in the e-mail address:

--- On Sun, 5/1/11, James Gilbert <jgilbe2 at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: James Gilbert <jgilbe2 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Typo in the Subversion manual
To: svnbook-deb at red-bean.com
Date: Sunday, May 1, 2011, 5:31 PM

Hello,

I am reading Version Control with Subversion, For Subversion 1.5 (Compiled from r3305) and I just love the way it's written, I have to say.  It's rare for a technically oriented reference such as this to be written where it's so easy to read.  Job well done!!  I'm one of those readers who just starts at the beginning of the document, and reads page by page through it until the end.

Well, I'd like to make one little tiny suggestion on page 20 (that is, the printed page 20; but page 44 in Adobe Acrobat Reader), and the text I'm referring to is in a shaded box on that page:

Versioning Symbolic Links
On non-Windows platforms, Subversion is able to version files of the special type
symbolic link (or “symlink”). A symlink is a file that acts as a sort of transparent refer-
ence to some other object in the
 filesystem, allowing programs to read and write to
those objects indirectly by way of performing operations on the symlink itself.
When a symlink is committed into a Subversion repository, Subversion remembers
that the file was in fact a symlink, as well as the object to which the symlink “points.”
When that symlink is checked out to another working copy on a non-Windows sys-
tem, Subversion reconstructs a real filesystem-level symbolic link from the versioned
symlink. But that doesn't in any way limit the usability of working copies on systems
such as Windows that do not support symlinks. On such systems, Subversion simply
creates a regular text file whose contents are the path to which to the original symlink
pointed. While that file can't be used as a symlink on a Windows system, it also won't
prevent Windows users from performing their other Subversion-related activities.

The sentence I noticed was this one:
 "On such systems, Subversion simply

creates a regular text file whose contents are the path to which to the original symlink

pointed."  I think you meant to say, "On such systems, Subversion simply


creates a regular text file whose contents are the path to which the original symlink


pointed."  That is, Instead of "the path to which to the" it seems to need to say just "the path to which the".

And just in case it helps, I am attaching the .pdf I downloaded as well.

Thanks, and regards,

James Gilbert

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