tests/test-archive-symlinks

#!/bin/sh

origdir=`pwd`

cat >> readlink.py <<EOF
import os
import sys

for f in sys.argv[1:]:
    print f, '->', os.readlink(f)
EOF

hg init repo
cd repo
ln -s nothing dangling
hg ci -qAm 'add symlink'

hg archive -t files ../archive
hg archive -t tar -p tar ../archive.tar
hg archive -t zip -p zip ../archive.zip

echo '% files'
cd "$origdir"
cd archive
python ../readlink.py dangling

echo '% tar'
cd "$origdir"
tar xf archive.tar
cd tar
python ../readlink.py dangling

echo '% zip'
cd "$origdir"
unzip archive.zip > /dev/null
cd zip
python ../readlink.py dangling