On Friday, April 14, 2000 8:10 AM, William K. Gibson
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
>
> I need to know the best way to create links in CVS repositories.
>
> Specifically, can I construct links such that a module can be linked
within
> another module and be checked out as a subdirectory.
>
> Here is an example of my situation. Say I have two modules, A and B. Both
> modules reside in their own seperate repositories in the CVSROOT. I have
> another module C containing a subdirectory C'. Within C' is source code
that
> I wish to share amongst A and B. Can I simply create a link to C' in A
and B
> and expect C' to be checked out as a subdirectory of A or B?
>
> If so, where do I create the link? Do I checkout A, and create a link to
> $CVSROOT/C/C' then add and commit the link? Will this work? Am I off my
nut
> for wanting to do this?
>
We use the '&' module feature to do this type of thing, along with the -d
option in the modules file.
If you do something like
_moduleA -d srcA ModuleA
_moduleB -d srcB ModuleB
_moduleC -d srcC ModuleC
moduleA -d moduleA &_moduleC &_moduleA
moduleB -d moduleB &_moduleC &_moduleB
a cvs co moduleA will give a directory structure
moduleA/srcA
moduleA/srcC
a cvs co moduleB will give
moduleB/srcB
moduleB/srcC
You cannot checkout two modules into one directory, and you can't create an
empty directory (e.g. srcC) and then checkout a & module that inserts a
file into the directory, you need to do things the other way around. If
you had another line
_moduleAmake makefiles/moduleA/makefile
you would have to make the moduleA definition
moduleA -d moduleA &_moduleAmake &_moduleC &_moduleA
Any other order and the moduleA repository will be set as 'Emptydir' and it
won't work correctly.
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