From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 05:41:50 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BF1A16A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 05:41:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kane.otenet.gr (kane.otenet.gr [195.170.0.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53D3843D2F for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 05:41:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b191.otenet.gr [212.205.244.199]) j065fjYE004406; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 07:41:46 +0200 Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j065fiNJ040695; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 07:41:44 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j065fguO040694; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 07:41:42 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 07:41:41 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Robert William Vesterman Message-ID: <20050106054141.GA40634@gothmog.gr> References: <41DC9473.6020209@vesterman.com> <20050106030926.GA56472@gothmog.gr> <41DCCB01.8050409@vesterman.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41DCCB01.8050409@vesterman.com> cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: source control question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 05:41:50 -0000 On 2005-01-06 00:22, Robert William Vesterman wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>On 2005-01-05 20:29, Robert William Vesterman 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