# HG changeset patch
# User Peter van Dijk <mercurial-bugs@selenic.com>
# Date 2009-02-15 17:14:20
# Node ID fd3e5ff53a31695f86ae0c5e2a8903d12f5da23e
# Parent  8c06d4bf2c23df396f9cfb5cb36c1d09d2a57528

fix disappearing symlinks [issue1509]

diff --git a/mercurial/archival.py b/mercurial/archival.py
--- a/mercurial/archival.py
+++ b/mercurial/archival.py
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ class tarit:
             i.mode = 0777
             i.linkname = data
             data = None
+            i.size = 0
         else:
             i.mode = mode
             data = cStringIO.StringIO(data)