Ian S. Worthington wrote:
Hi --
I have a product to build the source of which lives in an svn repository on a
remote system. To make life interesting the product build writes files back
into the same tree the source lives in.
I have previously built this product by copying the tree from the svn
repository over to linux and letting it do its thing. Any changes which had
to be made though then got applied outside of svn control, which I don't
like.
Are there any facilities in linux that would help me keep this more in
control? (The type of thing I'm thinking of might be a shadow file system
that searches first the linux directories then the svn repository, or a
checked-out version thereof, but I'm sure there are other ways of skinning
this cat).
Any suggestions welcomed.
Not exactly, but sort of and maybe....
cp -rl source socopy
It creates a copy using hard links. It works if files are not updated in
place. If you don't know whether that happens, try the cp command
without -l, and then use diff to see what's changed.
unionfs does what you want (I think), but it's never made it into the
big time.
--
Cheers
John
-- spambait
[email protected] [email protected]
-- Advice
http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
You cannot reply off-list:-)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit
http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
