Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 10:14:52 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: eivind@bitbox.follo.net (Eivind Eklund) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jdp@polstra.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's the deal with cc? *CRAP* Message-ID: <199705011714.KAA04216@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199705011355.PAA23164@bitbox.follo.net> from "Eivind Eklund" at May 1, 97 03:55:21 pm
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> > You can too; it just checks out to a different place. If the build > > environment is sufficiently modular, that won't matter. It probably > > isn't, though. > > I wouldn't consider this a 'real checkout' of a previous version. If > I want a previous version, I want it exactly - no changes, to be able > to compare with others etc. Changing directory layout is different. OK. > > CVS needs repository "symlinks". > > No, CVS needs understanding of directories and that files can move. > There has been discussion of adding this at cvs-info list, but I don't > think anything has come of it so far. Actually, the "symlink" idea is "it's stored here, but it looks like an Attic here, and it checks out to there". This would let it ve "virtually" moved to the new location, but not duplicated. Yeah, it's a kludge compared to rewriting the database, but any port in a storm. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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