G'day Scott,
But do you agree that "shared copies" would be useful functionality
for people who host their working areas on Windows?
I understand that there are various design and implementation
challenges:
* VSS shared copies don't get updated until a VSS operation
is performed (unlike symlinks on *nix);
* junctions and hard links are only supported on NTFS 5+ filesystems
(so Windows 9x/ME/NT users are left out in the cold, and Windows
2K/XP/03 users would only be able to use this functionality on NTFS
filesystems)
but that doesn't mean that this isn't a valid SCM use case.
Cheers,
Peter
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Palmer [mailto:scott.palmer@2connected.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 11:01am
> To: Subversion List
> Subject: Re: Sharing files like in MS Visual SouceSafe
>
> I don't see how symlinks or something like them can solve
> this problem.
> The link has to have something at the other end to link too
> after all.
> In the case of shared files/projects in VSS, the link is
> only internal
> to the VSS database (repository), externally each instance of
> the file
> can be different (they will get changes when the user does an
> update or
> 'get') or even not present if the user only has a working copy of one
> instance.
>
> Scott
>
> On Oct 6, 2004, at 1:45 PM, Monks, Peter wrote:
>
> > 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).
>
>
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