#require symlink $ origdir=`pwd` $ hg init repo $ cd repo $ ln -s nothing dangling avoid tar warnings about old timestamp $ hg ci -d '2000-01-01 00:00:00 +0000' -qAm 'add symlink' $ hg archive -t files ../archive $ hg archive -t tar -p tar ../archive.tar $ hg archive -t zip -p zip ../archive.zip files $ cd "$origdir" $ cd archive $ readlink.py dangling dangling -> nothing tar $ cd "$origdir" $ tar xf archive.tar $ cd tar $ readlink.py dangling dangling -> nothing zip $ cd "$origdir" $ unzip archive.zip > /dev/null 2>&1 $ cd zip $ readlink.py dangling dangling -> nothing $ cd ..