[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Symlinks and CVSROOT
From: |
Eric Siegerman |
Subject: |
Re: Symlinks and CVSROOT |
Date: |
Thu, 16 May 2002 13:15:17 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.2.5i |
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:20:48AM -0400, Lorne Gutz wrote:
> > CVS doesn't like it when CVSROOT
> > is a symlink rather than a real directory.
> >
> > -Larry Jones
>
> My system uses links to the CVS repository, and I have never had a problem
> with the links.
Same here; I've set up several repo's this way, with never a
hiccup.
Not to cast doubt on your comments, Larry -- you certainly know
the code a lot better than I do -- but rather to understand more
deeply:
- What's the problem with this?
- Why might it work in some situations but not in others?
- I find this technique quite useful (obviously). Would it be
feasible to change CVS to make it as dependable for everyone
as it seems to be for me? (N.B.: I'm simply asking for an
opinion, not for you to do the work.)
I refer specifically to allowing the repository's root (i.e. the
pathname referred to in prefix -d, $CVSROOT, and the .../CVS/Root
files) to be a symlink; *not* to allowing symlinks *within* that
directory.
--
| | /\
|-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. address@hidden
| | /
Anyone who swims with the current will reach the big music steamship;
whoever swims against the current will perhaps reach the source.
- Paul Schneider-Esleben