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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by Matt England <me...@mengland.net> on 2005/11/27 02:03:53 UTC
How does Subversion manage soft links? On Windows?
How does Subversion manage soft links?
I'm hoping that it works just fine for unix systems/filesystems.
What about Windows? What happens when a soft link in a repo created via linux is exported/checked-out to a Windows system?
Once again, I'm sure this is a faq, but I could not find anything on the tigris.org faq or the online red-bean.com book.
-Matt
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Re: How does Subversion manage soft links? On Windows?
Posted by Noel Yap <no...@gmail.com>.
On 11/28/05, Matt England <me...@mengland.net> wrote:
> Yes, for ldconfig-created symlinks (in at least Linux systems, but probably other Unix flavors) to shared objects (aka dynamic libraries, aka *.so files). Without these symlinks builds don't work.
>
> If I could find away around the linux/unix sym-links-required-for-systems-and-builds-to-work-with-shared-object madness, I'd be right with you and would want to do away with the sym links. Got any suggestions?
Are you not able to create these symlinks at build time prior to the
rest of the build?
> Alas, these (.so files) serve platform-dependent needs and as such are stored in platform-specific directories.
I see. What I've done in the past is to create the files under
something like `uname -s`/`uname -p`. Alternatively, if you have AFS
already in your infrastructure, it has a nifty @sys symlink which
points to a system-specific directory.
Noel
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Re: How does Subversion manage soft links? On Windows?
Posted by Matt England <me...@mengland.net>.
At 11/28/2005 11:36 AM, Noel Yap wrote:
>IMNSHO, it's much better to version a script that creates symlinks
>than versioning the symlinks themselves. The former allows:
>- easy type versioning (eg the symlink could disappear, reappear as a
>real directory, ...)
>- portability across OS's
>- portability across VC tools
>
>Is there a reason why you feel you need to version symlinks?
Yes, for ldconfig-created symlinks (in at least Linux systems, but probably other Unix flavors) to shared objects (aka dynamic libraries, aka *.so files). Without these symlinks builds don't work.
If I could find away around the linux/unix sym-links-required-for-systems-and-builds-to-work-with-shared-object madness, I'd be right with you and would want to do away with the sym links. Got any suggestions?
Alas, these (.so files) serve platform-dependent needs and as such are stored in platform-specific directories.
-Matt
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Re: How does Subversion manage soft links? On Windows?
Posted by Noel Yap <no...@gmail.com>.
IMNSHO, it's much better to version a script that creates symlinks
than versioning the symlinks themselves. The former allows:
- easy type versioning (eg the symlink could disappear, reappear as a
real directory, ...)
- portability across OS's
- portability across VC tools
Is there a reason why you feel you need to version symlinks?
Noel
On 11/26/05, Matt England <me...@mengland.net> wrote:
> How does Subversion manage soft links?
>
> I'm hoping that it works just fine for unix systems/filesystems.
>
> What about Windows? What happens when a soft link in a repo created via linux is exported/checked-out to a Windows system?
>
> Once again, I'm sure this is a faq, but I could not find anything on the tigris.org faq or the online red-bean.com book.
>
> -Matt
>
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Re: relocate into differen repository, UUID failure?!
Posted by Garrett Rooney <ro...@electricjellyfish.net>.
On 11/27/05, Clemens A. Mensik <cl...@ip2.at> wrote:
> is it possible to ignore this msg? or is my only
> solution to checkout the nee repository?
In your case, when you've combined multiple different repositories,
your only solution will be to check out new working copies. This is
actually a safety feature, since those working copies won't work
anyway, since the revision numbers on the files they contain are
different than the equivalent revisions in the new combined
repository.
-garrett
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relocate into differen repository, UUID failure?!
Posted by "Clemens A. Mensik" <cl...@ip2.at>.
Hi,
as some of you might remember, severel weeks ago
I've had a problem, because I didn't know how to
load severel small repositories into a new one.
Problem solved, because svnadmin has a parameter
option "--parent-dir" which has solved my problem.
Now I would like to relocate my local already checked-
out repositories but get the erro:
"The repository at... has uuid ...but the WC has ..."
is it possible to ignore this msg? or is my only
solution to checkout the nee repository?
greets
clemens
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Re: How does Subversion manage soft links? On Windows?
Posted by Matt England <me...@mengland.net>.
At 11/27/2005 05:36 AM, Phil Endecott wrote:
From the front page of subversion.tigris.org:
> # Versioning of symbolic links
>
> Unix users can place symbolic links under version control. The links
> are recreated in Unix working copies, but not in win32 working copies.
>
>(Maybe you need to search again for "symbolic link" rather than "soft link"?)
Yes, that was my problem.
-Matt
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Re: How does Subversion manage soft links? On Windows?
Posted by Phil Endecott <sp...@chezphil.org>.
Matt England wrote:
> How does Subversion manage soft links?
From the front page of subversion.tigris.org:
# Versioning of symbolic links
Unix users can place symbolic links under version control. The links
are recreated in Unix working copies, but not in win32 working copies.
(Maybe you need to search again for "symbolic link" rather than "soft
link"?)
--Phil.
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