[cvsnt] Re: Does CVS support Linked files?

[Brian Post]

I mean Shared files as per SourceSafe when I mention linked files. The 
reason we used shared files is to minimise the bug fixes required. We have 
about ~90 shared files which are exact copies of  each other.

>From Bo Berglund's very usefull information about how CVS works on the 
Client & Server ends I would assume that I could use Linux/Unix soft links. 
So from that I concluded that the CVSROOT\modules file can only be used to 
share files into a folder under another.

Arthur Barrett raises a good point that I hadn't thought of about the lock 
server not knowing that the files are shared & would allow simulaneous 
writes to both versions at exactly the same time. Unfortunatly in my example 
the WEB & RAA projects need similar base functionality but do completely 
different tasks.

Cheers, Brian