[Docutils-develop] missing symlinks (was: #450 0.18: New HTML markup for footnotes is difficult to stylise)

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

On 2022-06-07, Adam Turner wrote:

>>>> due to a broken link to minimal.css.

>>> This is one of the problems I had during the reposurgeon conversion --
>>> these four CSS files in `input/` seem to have broken symlinks in the
>>> SVN index or some other oddity going on.

>> It should work in a repository checkout, though.
>> Please tell whether this is the case.

> Using a fresh checkout:
...
> The files exist on disk, but are not valid links in Windows.
...
> So perhaps this is just a Windows issue.

At least, it works with a POSIX-compatible file system and also in our
repository.

> if the web server has disabled symlinks, 
> then it would also report errors. 

The repository web-view has the files and reports them as symlinks, e.g.

https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/docutils/test/functional/input/data/math.css
https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/docutils/test/functional/input/data/minimal.css

However, "minimal.css" is missing in the "public checkout"

https://docutils.sourceforge.io/test/functional/input/data/

OTOH, the "math.css" is present, although it is a symlink as well!
Maybe the "public checkout" does not create new files (or new symlinks)
without maintainer interaction?

Does anyone know how the "public checkout" under
https://docutils.sourceforge.io/test/
https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docutils/
works, where it is set up and how we can fix it?

Günter