From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 14 23:14:47 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CAFA1065672 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:14:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from mta5.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta5.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.200]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18EF48FC0A for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:14:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (ool-435559b8.dyn.optonline.net [67.85.89.184]) by mta5.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0KAC00LAWHUGN430@mta5.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:44:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by flosoft.no-ip.biz (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mAEMidrS016911; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:44:40 -0500 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:44:39 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-id: <491DFF57.5080204@gmail.com> Organization: FloSoft Systems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081027) Subject: looking for something like a union file system X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: aryeh.friedman@gmail.com List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:14:47 -0000 I am using a dev tool that maintains a "split" source tree for currently worked on files and those in the repo (aegis which is slightly different then how svn or cvs does it) and my the default build system assumes it is all in one tree.... thus I want someway of merge the two dirs and have a copy on write via a special command for it (i.e. if I start to edit foo.c it automatically checks it out for me).... any ideas?