[cvsnt] Re: Does CVS support Linked files?

[Arthur Barrett]

Brian,

Can you re-org your project so that the "common" files are at least in a
directory by themselves?

Then you could use the modules system...

I'm certainly not a fan of encouraging people to alter their project
structure based on the limitations of a tool however I have a suspicion
that it is better business practice to place common files in a common
directory.  My reasoning is that the common code is often maintained by
a different person/team than specific project work - so if you don't
want them breaking your app then it's better placed in a separate
location.  If different projects may need to use different versions that
could be supported by a common structure too, eg:

Test/Common/1.0
Test/Common/1.1
Test/Common-Latest (is the same as 1.1 through an alias tag)
Test/Web
Test/RBB

I think noone would object to you submitting a modification to CVS to
support "Shared Files" as per SourceSafe, however I suspect it will be
very difficult to implement in CVS 2.5.x.

Regards,


Arthur Barrett



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Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 12:00 AM
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Subject: [cvsnt] Re: Does CVS support Linked files?


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 


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