[Savannah-hackers] Re: symlink between two projects

[Mathieu Roy]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> said:

> Mathieu Roy <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> > But CVS does not really fit for symlinks and it can be later poses
> >> > compatibility issue. Is maintaining such a symlink absolutely required?
> >> 
> >> It would create more manual work if the symlink was not present, and
> >> it would make CVS history less relevant (and as it happens, the
> >> ChangeLog's are built from the CVS history for these projects so it
> >> makes the ChangeLog's less relevant too).  If it is difficult to
> >> maintain a symlink, then don't worry about it.
> >
> > In fact, I'm not sure at all that cvs will be able to deal with a
> > symlink. Have previously did this before?
> 
> I'm using it without problems (the only potential issue are that
> SASL/Shishi tags are added to the Stringprep module too, but I see
> that as additional history information).  It is used to symlink files
> on savannah now too (gnulib/regex.* and emacs/src/regex.* are the same
> CVS file), but I'm not aware that it is used to symlink directories.
> Perhaps a "find .  -type l" in the CVSROOT will reveal more...

Ok.

Remind me precisely which directory should be a symlink to which other
directory (which projects and CVS modules)  and consider it done.

Regards,


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Mathieu Roy
 
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