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Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:33:46 +0100
From: Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: looking for something like a union file system
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On Fri, 14.11.2008 at 17:44:39 -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> 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?

mount_unionfs(8) or the FUSE equivalent

Cheers,
Ulrich Spoerlein
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