I was wondering about converting shares. SVN has a mechanism for
handling UNIX symlinks where they attach a particularly phrased property
(attribute?) to the file. This property tells SVN that this file is
actually linked to the other file. UNIX clients doing checkouts/updates
will get a properly formed symlink, but Windows clients doing the same
will receive a copy of the linked file.
It seems like this mechanism provides sharing, though probably
imperfectly. It may not "share" history and comments, but at least it
would retain the linkage between the contents of the files.
(The following is slightly off topic, but I suspect a group of VSS users
interested in SVN is more likely to actually think about this than a
group of pure SVN or CVS users)
We make heavy use of "share" in VSS, and that is the only remaining
sticking point in a move to SVN. The lack of any mechanism for
lightweight reuse in SVN (and CVS before it) has always struck me as
odd. If I've got a simple .h file of useful definitions and inline
functions, I don't really want to have to bring it in as a subdirectory
under my project. Nor do I want to have to go out to the home project
of each subproject to retrieve the newest version, copy that over into
appropriate subdirectories under my project, and the update just to keep
my versions in sync with the originals. I have been perfectly willing
to accept that I was simply missing a usage model, but vss2svn's
inability to transfer over shares suggests that this is not the case...
Anyway, if an enterprising developer has the time and desire to look
into the symlink/property approach, I think that would be a great boon
to us -- and much appreciated. Unfortunately, we've just barely got
time to even consider SVN, and definitely not time to try to generate
such a patch ourselves.
Thanks for the work on vss2svn!
Mac
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