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Date:      Thu, 6 Jan 2005 07:41:41 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Robert William Vesterman <bob@vesterman.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: source control question
Message-ID:  <20050106054141.GA40634@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <41DCCB01.8050409@vesterman.com>
References:  <41DC9473.6020209@vesterman.com> <20050106030926.GA56472@gothmog.gr> <41DCCB01.8050409@vesterman.com>

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On 2005-01-06 00:22, Robert William Vesterman <bob@vesterman.com> wrote:
>Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>On 2005-01-05 20:29, Robert William Vesterman <bob@vesterman.com> wrote:
>>>Does anyone know of a source control system that is not so
>>>directory-centric? Most of the ones I've seen seem to have a base
>>>assumption that, more or less, "directory" == "project".
>>
>>AFAICT, any version control system that supports 'views' or 'modules'
>>can do that.  You can put pretty much anything in any place you want
>>and then create project based hierarchies of files by pulling parts of
>>the repository under the project directory.
>
> Yes, that's pretty much the concept I'm looking for.  Does anyone know
> of any such version control systems? If cvs, Subversion, or sccs have
> it, I must have missed it.

Yes, CVS has modules.  The Texinfo documentation is a bit awkward to
browse, but if you are interested in finding out how modules can be used
to create arbitrary `collections' of files, see:

	% info '(cvs)'

Look for the section titled ``The modules file''.  The most interesting
part of this is probably the description of the -a option, in the
subsection ``Alias modules''.

- Giorgos



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