> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hadmut Danisch [mailto:hadmut@danisch.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 3:02 PM
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Making a copy that follows?
>
>
> I am currently dealing with several software configuration files
> grouped in directories for different machines. Some of the files must
> be the same for all machines, other files are different.
>
> Softlinks don't do the task, since
>
> - You need to check out all directories
> - The local software always removes the old files and writes a new one
> when doing any configuration changes. So any link would be replaced
> with a plain file.
>
>
> That thought of having hardlinks in the file system is not important.
>
> The important thing is to be able to checkout the same file at
> different paths in the SVN tree. Every checkout of a subtree should
> have an up-to-date copy of the same file. This would make sense for
> many uses, e.g. README, Makefile, COPYRIGHT files and things like
> that.
>
> Under CVS I could have this simply by putting soft- and hardlink
> in the CVS repository itself. But with the migration from CVS to SVN I
> ran into the problem that this does not work anymore.
How about Plan B?
Let the build and/or deployment script build the correct tree at
build time.
The generic files would reside in a global directory. The
build/deploy scripts copies the global dir into your build/package dir,
and overlays it with the files in a custom dir. cp -pr
../global/generic dist/.; cp -pr ./local/custom dist/.
Or you could tokenize the custom files. The global dir contains
the files with tokens. The token values are in a properties file in the
local build and are applied at build/deploy time.
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