Re: Symbolic link between two paths INSIDE the repository

My company has exactly that situation in their CVS repository (and no
CVS doesn't do the necessary gymnastics either). It's not a great
solution when it's not actually supported by the tool.

Consider that if such a linking mechanism existed then checking out a
working copy, making changes and attemptimg to commit could conflict
with itself. Not only is this not supported but I imagine that there
aren't many people prepared to implement the gymnastics required to
implement it in a meaningful manner.

In my case, when moving Subversion I separated the shared code out
into a shared project. Each consumer of the shared code takes their
own local copy - this allows them to choose when to advance to a newer
copy lowering inter-project dependency. Modifications are only
allowed in the shared project which does make the work-flow more
complex (or rather more visibly complex since users really needed to
understand the same issues in the linked case).

I considered merging back from the local copy of the code to the
shared project - we may well do that when merge-tracking arrives...

How do others here deal with sharing content between multiple projects?

--
Talden
On 7/21/07, Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2007b@ryandesign.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 20, 2007, at 04:18, emerson cargnin wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to have the same file in the repository twice, I mean,
> > been shared by two different projects in different paths of the
> > repository. I know that svn can store sym links, but that's not what i
> > need here. I need to share the same file from two different paths. it
> > can be share the same file that both paths could change it or It could
> > be that one path is the "owner" of the file and the other would be
> > only read-only. thanks
>
> The only option other thn symlinks would be svn:externals, which is
> documented here:
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.2/svn.advanced.externals.html
>
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