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 16:25:22 -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> <200208292015.g7TKFAI13686@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 1030652784 29538 127.0.0.1 (29 Aug 2002 20:26:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 20:26:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "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 17kVrx-0007g3-00 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 22:26:21 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17kWOO-0006Lr-00 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 22:59:52 +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 17kVtL-0005Sa-00; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:27:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17kVr7-0004mQ-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:25:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17kVr4-0004m1-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:25:28 -0400 Original-Received: from h024.c001.snv.cp.net ([209.228.32.139] helo=c001.snv.cp.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.10) id 17kVr4-0004lo-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:25:26 -0400 Original-Received: (cpmta 22226 invoked from network); 29 Aug 2002 13:25:24 -0700 Original-Received: from 65.114.186.226 (HELO glip.premonitia.com) by smtp.premonitia.com (209.228.32.139) with SMTP; 29 Aug 2002 13:25:24 -0700 X-Sent: 29 Aug 2002 20:25:24 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: <200208292015.g7TKFAI13686@rum.cs.yale.edu> Original-Lines: 43 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:7128 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7128 > * In message <200208292015.g7TKFAI13686@rum.cs.yale.edu> > * On the subject of "Re: plan for code freeze " > * Sent on Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:15:09 -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? > > 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. > 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 thanks -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running RedHat7.3 GNU/Linux There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.