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Re: Migrating from sourcesafe to cvs
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Patrick Decat |
Subject: |
Re: Migrating from sourcesafe to cvs |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:43:11 +0200 |
Well, last CVS releases places the lock files in the correct directory,
i.e., the ones that contains the files where the symlinks point to).
I have actually checked that this behaviour was correct with CVS 1.11.1p1
on Solaris.
Patrick.
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Subject: Re: Migrating from sourcesafe to cvs
>
>
> Patrick Decat writes:
> >
> > if you planned to have your CVS server on a Unix machine,
> > you can use symbolic links to the *,v files in the repository.
>
> NO!!!! You can symlink *directories* if you must, but *NEVER* symlink
> files. Symlinking a file completely defeats CVS's (per-directory)
> locking and thus invites corruption.
>
> -Larry Jones
>
> There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. -- Calvin
- Migrating from sourcesafe to cvs, Wouter Brissinck, 2001/07/24
- Re: Migrating from sourcesafe to cvs, Patrick Decat, 2001/07/24
- Re: Migrating from sourcesafe to cvs, Noel L Yap, 2001/07/24
- RE: Migrating from sourcesafe to cvs, Wouter Brissinck, 2001/07/24
- Re: Migrating from sourcesafe to cvs,
Patrick Decat <=
- Re: Migrating from sourcesafe to cvs, Patrick Decat, 2001/07/24
- Re: Migrating from sourcesafe to cvs, Patrick Decat, 2001/07/24
- Re: Migrating from sourcesafe to cvs, Wouter Brissinck, 2001/07/24
- Re: Migrating from sourcesafe to cvs, Rex_Jolliff, 2001/07/24
- RE: Migrating from sourcesafe to cvs, Jimmy Rimmer, 2001/07/24
- RE: Migrating from sourcesafe to cvs, Jimmy Rimmer, 2001/07/24
- Re: Migrating from sourcesafe to cvs, Patrick Decat, 2001/07/25