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Re: [web] Revised instructions for testing using a simulator
phil@jaj.com (Phil Edwards) wrote on 26.09.02 in <20020926090119.A4457@disaster.jaj.com>:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 11:39:26PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > It's updating the tree from CVS once
> > I've got it that doesn't work for me.
>
> Ah. That makes sense; CVS currently can't handle trees checked out from
> multiple repositories. (Although it would seem obvious to do so, given
> that the information is replicated all the way down the tree. They plan
> to fix that, I'm told.)
Well, it can handle subdirectories from different repositories just fine -
I'm actually using that in a nightly cronjob.
What probably is the problem is files in one directory coming from
different repositories, and thus needing to share the same CVS/* files. I
can easily see how that would be a nasty problem.
MfG Kai