From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Steingold Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: plan for code freeze Date: 29 Aug 2002 15:02:00 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: 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> Reply-To: sds@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1030647810 11444 127.0.0.1 (29 Aug 2002 19:03:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 19:03:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 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 17kUZg-0002yE-00 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 21:03:24 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17kV66-0004Ql-00 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 21:36:54 +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 17kUb2-0002UJ-00; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:04:48 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17kUYP-0002Q2-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:02:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17kUYN-0002Pp-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:02:04 -0400 Original-Received: from h001.c001.snv.cp.net ([209.228.32.115] helo=c001.snv.cp.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.10) id 17kUYM-0002Pl-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:02:03 -0400 Original-Received: (cpmta 8264 invoked from network); 29 Aug 2002 12:02:01 -0700 Original-Received: from 65.114.186.226 (HELO glip.premonitia.com) by smtp.premonitia.com (209.228.32.115) with SMTP; 29 Aug 2002 12:02:01 -0700 X-Sent: 29 Aug 2002 19:02:01 GMT Original-To: "Stefan Monnier" X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: <200208291753.g7THrss11621@rum.cs.yale.edu> Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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:7126 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7126 > * In message <200208291753.g7THrss11621@rum.cs.yale.edu> > * On the subject of "Re: plan for code freeze " > * Sent on Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:53:54 -0400 > * Honorable "Stefan Monnier" writes: > > 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? thanks! -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running RedHat7.3 GNU/Linux I want Tamagochi! -- What for? Your pet hamster is still alive!