[cvsnt] Re: Does CVS support Linked files?

Brian Post bpost at 80-20.com
Sun Oct 23 23:59:43 BST 2005


Community technical support mailing list was retired 2010 and replaced with a professional technical support team. For assistance please contact: Pre-sales Technical support via email to sales@march-hare.com.


I mean Shared files as per SourceSafe when I mention linked files. The 
reason we used shared files is to minimise the bug fixes required. We have 
about ~90 shared files which are exact copies of  each other.

>From Bo Berglund's very usefull information about how CVS works on the 
Client & Server ends I would assume that I could use Linux/Unix soft links. 
So from that I concluded that the CVSROOT\modules file can only be used to 
share files into a folder under another.

Arthur Barrett raises a good point that I hadn't thought of about the lock 
server not knowing that the files are shared & would allow simulaneous 
writes to both versions at exactly the same time. Unfortunatly in my example 
the WEB & RAA projects need similar base functionality but do completely 
different tasks.

Cheers, Brian 





More information about the cvsnt mailing list
Download the latest CVSNT, TortosieCVS, WinCVS etc. for Windows 8 etc.
@CVSNT on Twitter   CVSNT on Facebook