[p4] Problem about source tree orgnization.

[Shawn Hladky]

Windows Vista finally supports symbolic links.  A much overdue feature!


On 8/9/06, Weintraub, David <david.weintraub at bofasecurities.com> wrote:
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> If you're on a *nix system (Unix, MacOSX, Linux) Perforce supports
> symbolic links, and that would be the way to go. If you're on Windows,
> life is much more difficult because Perforce on Windows doesn't support
> symbolic links -- even if they were stored in Perforce under *nix.
>
> <rant>
> This is really rather stupid. Not Perforce, but Windows OS. The
> underlying Windows file system, NTFS, supports file names as long as
> 32,000 characters, hard links, and symbolic links. In fact, I believe
> these are even implemented in the underlying Windows API. However,
> Windows OS doesn't support these features!
>
> And, don't get me started about the VisualStudio IDE. Or, its
> integration into *any* version control systems.
> </rant>
>
> Maybe I should start drinking decaf.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Yan Tong
> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 2:33 AM
> To: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: [p4] Problem about source tree orgnization.
>
> Hi,
>
> Now I have a depot named a, and the source tree looks like (the attached
> image):
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>
> *The problem:*
>
> The code in a->b->d->src->com is the same as the code in
> a->b->c->src->com, so I want to make a link between them in order not to
> maintain two copies of the same code.(Also only one group is responsible
> for modifying the code, other groups just use them)
>
>
>
> What mechanism does perforce provide to support this operation?? Can
> branch do this?
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