RE: Sharing Common Files

[Matt Doar]

Have you looked at the modules file in CVSROOT? 

If you have a top-level directory "main_module" and when people check
out main_module you want them to also get the directory bar from foo1
(but placed in main_module/src/bar1) and the directory bar from foo2
(but placed in main_module/src/bar2), then the following lines create
aliases for the two "extra" directories, also renaming these extra
directories so they fit in the main_module subdirectory "src".

alias1     -d src/bar1    foo1/bar
alias2      -d src/bar2     foo2/bar
mymodule    main_module &alias1 &alias2

Works for me with recent versions of CVS. Hope this helps.

~Matt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden 
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> On Behalf Of Dean Do
> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 2:28 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: RE: Sharing Common Files
> 
> Thanks for the response, Todd, but this will not work for us 
> since we do dev
> on Wins PC.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden 
> [mailto:address@hidden On
> Behalf Of Todd Denniston
> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 1:36 PM
> To: Dean Do
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Sharing Common Files
> 
> Dean Do wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is there a way to setup in CVS to be able to share common 
> files [not 
> > directories] between 2 trees?  Here's an example...
> > 
> > proj_1_tree
> > |
> > |- file1
> > |- file2
> > |- file3
> > 
> > proj_2_tree
> > |
> > |- dir1
> >     |- file1
> > |- dir2
> >     |- file2
> >     |- file3
> > 
> > ... files1/2/3 need to be the identical in both trees, 
> however, they 
> > reside in different directories for each tree.
> > 
> > Please advise if there's any way to accomplish this.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Dean
> > 
> assuming unix,
> in proj_2_tree
> |
> |- dir1
>     |- file1 softlink to ../proj_1_tree/file1
> |- dir2
>     |- file2 softlink to ../proj_1_tree/file2
>     |- file3 softlink to ../proj_1_tree/file3
> |- proj_1_tree
>    |
>    |- file1
>    |- file2
>    |- file3
> 
> The softlinks are created by make from a Makefile, or some 
> other scripting
> language.
> --
> Todd Denniston
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