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Re: working copy storage for RA properties

From: Jim Blandy <jimb_at_zwingli.cygnus.com>
Date: 2000-12-06 00:10:56 CET

Karl Fogel <kfogel@galois.collab.net> writes:
> Branko =?ISO-8859-2?Q?=C8ibej?= <brane@xbc.nu> writes:
> > You don't "svn add" a file to a configuration. Configurations are
> > effectively what CVS modules are (or rather, CVS modules are a subset of
> > configurations). OTOH you could always require that "svn add" under a
> > configuration needs an explicit repository parameter.
> >
> > These beasties can be extremely useful for hooking up distributed
> > repositories, among other things.
>
> Oh, I'm sorry Branko, I misunderstood your proposal.
>
> I think what you're talking about (CVS modules-like functionality) is
> already planned via "union directories"; if you haven't seen JimB's
> description of those, let me know and I can dig it up for you. It's
> in the archives somewhere.

Well, union directories don't handle pulling together things from
different servers.

I wonder what kind of meaning one can assign to transactions if one
has a working copy assembled from multiple servers. Are transactions
meaningful across multiple independent servers?
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:16 2006

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