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RE: Sharing files like in MS Visual SouceSafe

From: Monks, Peter <peter.monks_at_vignette.com>
Date: 2004-10-06 19:45:42 CEST

G'day Toby,

Perhaps I should have been more careful to discuss use cases rather
than implementations. To my mind the notion of a "shared copy" is
what's important, and the unfortunate fact is that Subversion
currently only supports this notion on *nix platform (via symlinks).

The point is that support for shared copies on Windows would be very
useful, and has been discussed by a number of people on this list at
various different times. Whether this functionality is implemented
using something VSS's shared file implementation, or NTFS 5 junctions
and hard links or something else entirely is "merely" an
implementation detail.

Cheers,
Peter
 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Toby Johnson [mailto:toby@etjohnson.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 10:31am
> To: Monks, Peter
> Cc: KeyPoint; users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Sharing files like in MS Visual SouceSafe
>
> Monks, Peter wrote:
>
> >G'day Tomasz,
> >
> >This functionality is currently only available on *nix clients (via
> >the use of versioned symlinks). A number of people (myself included)
> >have requested this functionality as an enhancement for Windows, but
> >I don't know if anyone's raised it formally with the Subversion team
> >(ie. raised it in their bug tracking system as opposed to
> just posting
> >about it on this list).
> >
> >
> Versioned symlinks, as they exist in Subversion on Unix, are entirely
> different from the VSS notion of "shared" files. Since
> Windows does not
> support symlinks (neither shortcuts nor junctions nor hard links
> accomplish the same thing), implementing this same functionality on
> Windows is impossible.
>
> That's not to say that implementing VSS's notion of shared files is
> impossible, but please don't confuse people by interchanging the two.
>

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