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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: External SVN item in
From:       Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2008-09-20 21:01:49
Message-ID: gb3obu$ocv$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:
> On Thursday 18 September 2008 22:27:36 Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> ...I don't see this happening. Besides, symlinks require your source
>> tree to look a certain way, and I don't see that going over well, either.
> 
> I use symlinks locally to keep kdebase compiling with git-svn. What's the 
> problem with them, besides not really working with windows?

...they don't work on Windows :-). Also if they're cross-module (which 
they are by definition, or you'd be using relative paths), you either 
impose a particular checkout hierarchy, or else require people to create 
them by hand.

-- 
Matthew
We are Microsoft. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
   -- Badtech

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