Re: [Monotone-devel] somewhat incoherent debate over CVS limitations, with a feature request buried inside

[Lele Gaifax]

>>>>> "Nathaniel" == Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> writes:

    Nathaniel> Is anyone aware of any document describing what modules
    Nathaniel> are and why anyone cares?  What they do and what the
    Nathaniel> use case(s) they're trying to solve are?  I've never
    Nathaniel> understood this.

CVS modules basically let's you configure a virtual tree out of
concrete versioned subtrees of a repository.  This makes it easier to
handle cases where you want an easy way to extract a subset of the
repository focused on some product (say, its sources in './src' and
all the libs it needs under './lib').  From this point of view, they
brings the same as symlinks, if you imagine they coming from a central
versioned script.

hth, 
ciao, lele.
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