Re: Symlinks in CVS trees
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 07:21:59PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 12:19:17AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > Can anyone help with this one?
> >
> > tetex-* has symlinks in the upstream source tree. CVS doesn't like
> > symlinks :-/ Using the -e/-o commands in the CVSROOT/modules file to
> > have a script create the symlinks on export/checkout works fine if the
> > CVSROOT is on a local machine, but if it's a remote machine, then any
> > scripts are executed on the server, not the client.
> >
> > So does anyone have any suggestions as how to handle this with CVS?
> > (And please don't say "use a different system" at this point ;-)
>
> Joey Hess retains a local script to manage links after checking out, as
> I recall, when he CVSs home directory and such. I could never find a
> better way to do it either.
Thanks, I guess that's what'll have to be.
Julian
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