RE: Managing duplicate and near duplicate files

Hi Rich, what type of files are they? Can you give us some examples of names and contents?

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Keith Moore

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Yale [mailto:Richard.Yale_at_uk.linedata.com]
Sent: Friday, 9 May 2008 1:23
To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Managing duplicate and near duplicate files

Hi I'm quite new to subversion so sorry for bad terminology, or a silly question. I couldn't find my answer in the archive.

We've recently moved a file set over to subversion to manage changes to and growth of this set. The set includes many duplicate and near duplicate files (often with different names) across many directories which I've identified and created SVN scripts to delete (near)duplicates and SVN copy them back then restore the true file so that subversion will know they were born from one original file and that they were modified.

A change to one of these files usually needs to go into each of them so my question is this: Is there a manageable way for me and other contributors to change one of these files then roll out the change across each duplicate and near duplicate file, if needed, without needing to know which other files should take the change? I guess I could write a script that will merge a change to a list of a file's relations but that would be a lot of work to make reliable and would need manual updating when a new duplicate file was made.

The file names and locations can't be changed for legacy reasons but I could create a new directory with a "master" copy of these files if that gets a simpler solution. The files are used from windows machines by the way so I think that rules out any kind of symbolic link solution for the exact duplicates.

Regards,

Rich

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Received on 2008-05-09 00:53:00 CEST