Re: how to support symlinks?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
> > > Probably means FTP, ie
> > > <ftp://gnudist.gnu.org/usr/local/src/symlinks-1.1.tar.gz>.  But the
> > > file is not at that location.  Sorry, I don't know where the current
> > > version is.
> > 
> > my problem exactly.  :-)  given that this is a problem that hundreds
> > before me have tripped over, i'm assuming there's a standard solution.
> > i'm just trying to find it.
> 
> Meta-CVS supports symlinks. You can ``mcvs add'' a symlink under version
> control, or use ``mcvs ln'' to create one.  You can move or rename them
> with ``mcvs mv'' just like files, and likewise remove them with 
> ``mcvs rm''.  Symlinks appear, disappear, move or retarget as needed
> when you fetch versions with ``mcvs up''.

meta-cvs is not a possible solution, since we need web-page access to the
repository as well, and as i read it, meta-cvs doesn't handle that.  and
it's not like i'm going to adopt an entirely new tool just for something
as trivial as symlinks.

symlinks.  that's all i want.  really.

rday