Re: [rudy@gnu.org: Re: [Savannah-hackers] [teirllm@dms.auburn.edu: Re: emacs/src/regex.c]]

[storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)]

Rudy Gevaert <rudy@gnu.org> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 10:21:45PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > If symlinks are not the right thing to do, what is?  Checking out
> > regex.[ch] from their CVS and checking them into the Emacs CVS?  I
> 
> Yes

Since there are _vital_ branch and release tagging information in the
old regex.[ch] files related to GNU emacs, it would be inadequate to
just commit the latest version of those files into the emacs
repository.

The only proper solution is to _copy_ the two ,v files directly (on
the CVS server) into the emacs repository, to preserve consistency &
history.

> 
> > thought the links were used to avoid the need to resync the two
> > repositories manually; is there a better way to do that?
> 
> That could be.  I don't know who set up those symlinks.  In our
> previous configuration it was possible.  Now, every project runs in a
> chroot.  Linking outside this chroot doesn't seem to be the right
> thing to do.
> 
> I even doubt if it is possible.  If it is, I could be that this breaks
> (or could be exploited) the chroot environment.

I don't think it is worth it.  The symlinks were a hack whose time has
gone...

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