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RE: Possible modifications to CVS.
From: |
Paul Sander |
Subject: |
RE: Possible modifications to CVS. |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Dec 2001 19:53:48 -0800 |
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
>>
>> address@hidden writes:
>> > If this isn't possible, I would suggest it be added to
>> CVS. What I would
>> > like to see is a way to check out files from anywhere in
>> the repository, and
>> > from any repository, and be able to put the files anywhere
>> I want in my
>> > working directory structure, and have CVS maintain the files.
>>
>> That would require completely redesigning and reimplementing CVS.
>>
>Anybody know how common this ability is in such systems? Subversion,
>in particular?
It's common in systems that supply a versioned mapping between repository
containers (RCS files in CVS) and working copies of files in people's
sandboxes. Other descriptions of this capability are "directory versioning"
and "tree snapshots".
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