CVS looks at the "CVS" subdirectory of the working directory for its metadata, and among other things, that metadata tells CVS where in the repository to find the files you're checking out or in. This means that even with the symlink, the CVS file operations will be looking at what's in your "NewProject" directory for this metadata, not at projectXYZ or projectFooBar. You could still go to the other project checkout directories and check in from there, but it sounds like that's not what you want.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rez P Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 2:02 PM To: CVS Subject: CVS Vitrual Project We're running CVS on a Redhat linux server and our users all use Windows machines either using CVS command line or WinCVS or TortoiseCVS. I'm not clear on the CVS manual about this. Is it possible to create or have a project in CVS that consists of only files(NO folders or subfolders) from other existing projects? NewProject File1 (a symlink to $cvsroot/projectXYZ/file1) File2 (a symlink to $cvsroot/projectFooBar/folder/subfolder/xfile) . . . File N (a symlink to $cvsroot/project123/folder/subfolder/file123) And users can check out this new project and once they modify the files in it, the updates would actually occur to the existing files in other projects where they point to? Should such a project be created directly on the server with symlinks pointing to the actual versioned files with correct permissions configured. Or should it be configured on the client machine and imported to CVS as a project or module? Could someone please give me detailed instructions or point me to a link. Thanks ________________________________ Hotmail(r) has ever-growing storage! Don't worry about storage limits. Check it out. <http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tu torial_Storage_062009> ********************************************************** MLB.com: Where Baseball is Always On
