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Re: VSS to SVN...

From: C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-02-15 05:22:42 CET

Early Ehlinger <earlye@respower.com> writes:

> In VSS I was able to set up files that were "shared," which is similar to
> the SVN concept of copy-via-hardlink. The difference is that as the
> original file is updated, the shared-version keeps pace, whereas an SVN
> copy-via-hardlink file retains the "old" version.
>
> Does the same functionality exist in SVN, and I'm simply missing it?

No, it doesn't really exist. I mean, you can *kinda* get this
functionality using svn:externals, but not at the granularity of a
single file. If only Subversion could version soft-links...

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