Re: module support

"Lance Larsen" <llarsen@netopia.com> writes:

> I have been looking through the design docs and other info I could
> find about subversion. I am curious if there has been any talk about
> module support for subversion. I have run into the need to share
> code between multiple projects in a repository several times, and
> the CVS support for this is rather limited and awkward. Sourcesafe
> seemed to allow a little more flexibility in sharing files within a
> directory structure, but I prefer CVS for other reasons. I like the
> sound of the design changes with svn. Is module support included, or
> planned, or not yet addressed?

We have discussed the idea of implementing something like CVS modules;
the idea would be to implement something similar to a symlink in the
repository filesystem. (As opposed to our "cheap directory copies",
which are really like hard-links.)

But, I suspect we won't get to this feature until after 1.0.

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:57 2006