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dr_leevsey
dr_leevsey

Reputation: 385

crossplatform solution for symlink handling with VCS

The thing I'm trying to do is to implement version control for huge amount of XSLT files in our system. The problem is, that the way I'm trying to manage XSLT files isn't supported by Windows (that is used by most part of developers as a desktop OS): Each XSLT is used to transform appropriate customers data and it's location in filesystem is a directory named as customers identifier (like 1234567890123). It makes this structure very human-unreadable. Thats why I made symlinks to each directory with name like "Company Name" and init mercurial repository. So, cloning this repository is working alright in Linux, but in Windows i received text files instead of symlinks.

Any usefull advice, how to solve my problem, is welcome. Hope for You, people!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 342

Answers (1)

Lazy Badger
Lazy Badger

Reputation: 97305

In case of Mercurial your choice must be Subrepository (read also Subrepositories from "Mercurial Kick Start Exercises" of Aragost) (or GuestRepo as better iteration of idea)

Why

Directory of subrepo inside super-repo may have different name, than real basename of subrepo. This way you may have 1234567890123 as directory of subrepo, but .hgsub will show direct relation of 1234567890123 with `Acme Co.

How

Define non-trivial path for subrepo in .hgsub, like

1234567890123 = /PATH/TO/ACME

Upvotes: 1

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