Yes this is exactly what i have done, so i can edit my files from DOS. cvs co MODULE cd MODULE rm file ln -s /outside/FILE file edit /outside/FILE cvs com
Im sorry for causing so much trouble:-) Regards Simon Strandgaard Frederic Brehm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i en nyhedsmeddelelse:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > At 8:23 -0600 1/15/02, Steve Greenland wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:29:59PM +0100, Simon Strandgaard wrote: > >> Its not the symlink it self, i store in my repository, its the symlinked > >> file. > >> > >> I have only files in my repository, without any symlinks! But i have > >> many symlinks in the directory where i checked out my source tree. > >> > >> What im interested in having cvs to look at the timestamp of files > >> those which my links point to. My problem is that cvs is looking at > >> the symlinks timestamp. > > > >I think you're still expressing yourself badly, because if the symlinks > >aren't in the repository, then cvs isn't looking at them *at all*. Maybe > >you should post a *short* example of the problem you are seeing, with > >the actual output of CVS and 'ls -l' of the individual files/links. > > > If the symlinks are in his sandbox, then cvs update will look at them. > > Simon, is this something like what you did? > > cvs co MODULE > cd MODULE > rm FILE > ln -s /somewhere/FILE > edit /somewhere/FILE > cvs -n update > > The problem is that cvs looks at the timestamp of MODULE/FILE and > decides that it hasn't changed so it doesn't list it as updated. Is > this correct? > > Fred > -- > Fred Brehm, Sarnoff Corporation, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.sarnoff.com/digital_video_informatics/vision_technology/index.asp > _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
