On Wednesday, February 16, 2000 5:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Are there any gotchas in adding symbolic links to a CVS repository
> file structure? I'm trying to set up cvs for Java development, and
> I'd like a structure like the following:
> snip
>
> Will cvs freak out if the same directory/,v files are commited or
> locked by users accessing them from different symbolic link
> directories? (Different Root, same ,v)
>
With CVS 1.10, symbolic links function correctly in the repository. There were
problems on earlier versions.
>
>
> (EXPLANATION:
>
> I'd like to use symbolic links because I'm more comfortable setting up
> the repository once, so that a single checkout gets all necessary
> files, rather than what I'm presently doing, which is
>
> cvs checkout projects/NiceServlet
> cd NiceServlet
> cvs checkout core/com
>
> which is also fine, and I know it works, but you have to do it for
> every subdirectory (I'm using several different Java packages), so it
> turns into
>
> mkdir com
> cd com
> mkdir purpletech
> cd purpletech
> cvs checkout core/com/purpletech/utils
> cvs checkout core/com/purpletech/servlets
> cd ..
> mkdir othercompany
> cd othercompany
> cvs checkout othercompany/com/othercompany
>
> which is a big pain in the neck.)
Why not use nested/composite modules in the modules file?
Then you could have a modules file like:
_corecom -d core/com core/com
_NiceServelet -d . projects/NiceServelet
_OtherJava -d Other projects/OtherJava
NiceServelet -d NiceServelet &_NiceServelet &_corecom
OtherJava -d OtherJava &_OtherJava &_corecom
Now checking out Nice Servelet will give you:
NiceServelet/
NiceServelet/core/com
This may not be quite what you want, but you should get the idea from this.
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