On 6/24/08, Patrick.Higgins@xxxxxxxx <Patrick.Higgins@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Cygwin's clever symlink trick seems to work pretty well in practice. I'm not exactly sure what > it's doing, but it seems to create a shortcut that it's own programs understand. Some other > non-Cygwin programs seem to understand them, too, but Java does not which is a big > problem for me. It seems somewhat odd that your developers are relying on an operating system feature that doesn't even exist. I might suggest one of: - add an abstraction layer to your Java applet that understands cygwin-style symlinks - actually just check in the file multiple times; git will store it efficiently anyway - improve your Makefile to automatically copy the files and/or create symlinks at build time rather than storing the symlinks in revision control. My understanding of Clearcase is that it actually loads a virtual filesystem driver in Windows and does all kinds of insane magic - slowly and inefficiently, too - behind the scenes. Something tells me git (and every other VCS :)) really doesn't want to go there. Have fun, Avery -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
