FWIW, SysInternals' Junction utility allows you to create symbolic links on Windows:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Junction.html Ian It's better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you are not Ian D. Stewart Appl Dev Analyst-Advisory, DCS Automation JPMorganChase Global Technology Infrastructure Phone: (614) 244-2564 Pager: (888) 260-0078 "Wayne Fay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Maven Users List" <[email protected]> om> cc: Subject: Re: Simple CVS question: How to add a file to the toplevel cvsroot 03/07/2006 03:20 PM Please respond to "Maven Users List" He probably means symbolic link as in "on unix or linux, ln -s dir1 dir2". Not symbolic links in CVS itself. At least, I don't know of any symbolic links in CVS! If you're not working on an operating system that supports symbolic links, this will be a difficult option to employ. Perhaps you can use Cygwin and get symlinks, not positive about that! Wayne On 3/7/06, Gautham Pamu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for responding to my email. I am more inclined to the second > option.. Can you tell me how to create these symbollic links, what command > should I use to acheive this or Are there any cvs commands to create > links... > > - Keep the structure and create a new module that contains a parent POM > and a list of symbolic links > to your actual CVS modules > > Thanks > Gautham Pamu > > On 3/7/06, Emmanuel Venisse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You can't do that. > > > > I have two workaround for your problem: > > - Refactor your cvs modules for having only one cvs modules that contains > > all your actual module > > - Keep the structure and create a new module that contains a parent POM > > and a list of symbolic links > > to your actual CVS modules > > > > Emmanuel > > > > Gautham Pamu a écrit : > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > > > I knew this is not the right mailing list for this question but I am > > posting > > > here as most users on this mailing > > > list are familiar with CVS. > > > > > > I want to have a parent pom.xml file for the all the modules in cvs. So > > is > > > it possible to add pom.xml file to the cvsroot > > > > > > like for example: > > > CVSROOT is to :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvsroot so how do I add > > file > > > to this folder. When I try the CVS add it is giving > > > this error. > > > > > > ~/dev/test> cvs -d :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvsroot/ add > > pom.xml > > > Password: > > > cvs add: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory > > > cvs [add aborted]: no repository > > > > > > -- > > > -Gautham Pamu > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > -Gautham Pamu > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
