From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: plan for code freeze Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:38:30 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200208292038.g7TKcUA13900@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <200207181644.g6IGiuv11955@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200207191653.g6JGrpV26904@aztec.santafe.edu> <200208131634.g7DGYxf14020@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200208140515.g7E5F8R07436@wijiji.santafe.edu> <200208141439.g7EEd8o18274@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200208172008.g7HK8iu08874@wijiji.santafe.edu> <86u1llwrag.fsf@asgard.bp.aventail.com> <200208250526.g7P5QTS11987@wijiji.santafe.edu> <86hehfyoh6.fsf@asgard.bp.aventail.com> <200208291753.g7THrss11621@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200208292015.g7TKFAI13686@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1030653593 12206 127.0.0.1 (29 Aug 2002 20:39:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 20:39:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stefan Monnier" , "Stefan Monnier" , emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17kW4y-0003AW-00 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 22:39:48 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17kWbP-0006gc-00 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 23:13:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17kW6M-0002LI-00; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:41:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17kW3l-0002Ej-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:38:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17kW3j-0002EX-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:38:32 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17kW3j-0002EE-00; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:38:31 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g7TKcUA13900; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:38:30 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Sam Steingold Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:7129 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7129 > > > > CVS has special support for symlinks-in-the-repository, so it should > > > > work, and if it doesn't, then CVS will tell you (I seem to remember that > > > > there are limits to what CVS handles). > > > > It is already used for emacs/src/regex.[ch] which is symlinked > > > > with gnulib/regex.[ch]. > > > > > > this is a stunning revelation to me (I had some quite disastrous > > > experience with symlinks in the CVS some years ago, and the CVS manual > > > on the cvshome.org appears to support my understanding that symlink and > > > CVS do not work together at all). > > > > > > Could you please be more specific: how do symlinks work? > > > > I think you confuse the issue of revision-control of symlinks > > in your project, against using symlinks inside the repository. > > nope - I have several identical files: FOO, src/BAR, etc/ZOT and I want > them all to refer the the same file in the CVS repository (FOO,v). > this caused so many problems that now each of these files has its own > *,v RCS file. What have you tried ? > > But you can use symlinks inside the repository for purposes of > > providing the same RCS file(s) under a few different names in the CVS > > repository and such that updating one automatically updates the > > other(s) (because they really are one and the same). > > so how do I tell cvs to do > > $ rm -f src/BAR,v > $ ln -s FOO,v src/BAR,v There is no such cvs command, you have to do it by hand (i.e. use the two lines above). Stefan